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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Geoffrey Chaucer"”.
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A comparison of two medieval story-tellers : Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
… the narrative and framing techniques used by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. These authors were selected for several reasons. Being contemporaries, they lived through the days of the reign of Richard II, his deposition, and the accession of Henry IV. This was a time change: the age of …
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THE 'ENTENTE' OF THE NARRATOR: A POET SPEAKS TO HIS AUDIENCE IN CHAUCER'S VERSIONS OF THE DIDO AND AENEAS LEGEND
… Legend of Dido" in The Legend of Good Women, Geoffrey Chaucer offers his versions of the classical love story of Dido and Aeneas. Each story is told through the voice of a well-developed narrator who regularly interrupts his narration to speak to an audience addressed in the poem. This study …
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English Literature's Father of Authorial Androgyny: The Innovative Perspective of Chaucer and the Wife of Bath
This thesis seeks to examine Geoffrey Chaucer as English literature’s father of authorial androgyny, specifically through an analysis of his Wife of Bath character. Through a close reading of the “General Prologue” descriptions of the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath as well as an analysis of the …
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The gentil example : thematic parallels in Froissart's Chroniques and Chaucer's Franklin's tale
… on an inter-genre, comparative approach between Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale from the Canterbury collection, and Jean Froissart’s Chroniques, the innovative and epic account of French history in the thirteenth century. I have adopted a method of thematic comparison between the two in an effort to …
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The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
… that the most prominent English poets, namely Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Gower, were against the later crusades regardless of their target. However, since the anti-crusade voice of Gower and Langland has been discussed by many other scholars, this study focuses on Chaucer's …
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Completeness and incompleteness in Geoffrey Chaucer's The canterbury tales
… are given.</p><p>The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, is examined with reference to the proposed aspects of completeness. The various ways in which the work can be and has been considered incomplete are discussed. The four fragmentary Tales in The Canterbury Tales--The Cook's Tale, …
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Proto-Feminist Chaucer: The Rivalry Between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk
This essay explores whether Geoffrey Chaucer should be considered a proto-feminist, focused primarily on “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” and “The Clerk’s Prologue and Tale”. The Wife of Bath, as this essay states, can arguably be considered a feminist character, based on modern definitions …
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Theorizing in Unfamiliar Contexts: New Directions in Translation Studies
… this issue through the dual examination of Geoffrey Chaucer‟s use of translation in the Canterbury Tales and that of Japanese storytellers in classical Kamigata rakugo. It compares the findings of the discipline‟s most pervasive theories with those gained through an abductive analysis of the …
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The Transcendent Comedy of the "Canterbury Tales": Harmony in "Quyting," Harmony in Fragmentation
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer has been a controversial work for many years due in part to its tonal variety which leads to questions of genre and the work's purpose. Ambiguity regarding the work's hypothetical finished state, due to its actual fragmented condition, also contributes to …
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The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism
… poets John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer; Oxford dissidents and Bible translators such as Nicholas Hereford; and, most notably, John Wyclif, the Oxford philosopher and preacher who inspired the heretical Lollard movement.</p> <p>The opening chapters present an overview of …
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Improving instruments: equatoria, astrolabes, and the practices of monastic astronomy in late medieval England
… to be a holograph manuscript in the hand of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Equatorie of the Planetis (Peterhouse, Cambridge MS 75.I) has recently been identified as the work of John Westwyk (d. c. 1400), a Benedictine monk of Tynemouth Priory and St Albans Abbey. His draft description of the …
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The Idea of Vacuity in Chaucer's Works
… with void space. In examining the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, this study begins to readdress that understanding. The study offered here concerns the laconic moments an audience encounters when reading Chaucer’s work. Whilst this examination concerns gaps, absences and ciphers, it also …
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SONIC INTERVENTIONS: SILENCE, SOUND, AND MELODY IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
… from the late-fifth to early-fifteenth-century: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Le Roman de Silence, the aptly named Book of Margery Kempe, John Gower’s “Apollonius of Tyre” and the anonymous, late fifth-century Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri. These five works may differ in …
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Medieval Feminine Humanism and Geoffrey Chaucer's Presentation of the Anti-Cecilia
… and readers alike. However, through analyzing Chaucer's earlier analogues, it becomes apparent that Chaucer has left out key pieces of the Life of Saint Cecelia. These omissions can be explained as attempts to illustrate the humanistic beliefs of both St. Augustine and Christine de Pizan. …
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"Wood Leoun" . . . "Crueel Tigre": Animal Imagery and Metaphor in "The Knight's Tale"
… some derogatory aspect of that character. Chaucer makes use of the animal-image throughout The Canterbury Tales, especially in "The Knight's Tale," to stress a break in each character from humane reason or to emphasize a lean towards a bestial nature. The degree of this departure is …
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Misreading English meter : 1400-1514
… wrote irregular meters in artless imitation of Chaucer. On the contrary, I argue that Chaucer’s followers deliberately misread his meter in order to challenge his authority as a laureate. Rather than reproduce that meter, they reformed it, creating three distinct meters that vied for dominance …
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Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: Rhetoric and Gender in Marriage
… in medieval society, the marriage group of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales attempts to reconcile the ongoing battle for sovereignty between husband and wife. Existing hierarchies restricted women; therefore, marriage fittingly presented more obstacles for women. Chaucer creates the …
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Bridging Discourse: Connections Between Institutional and Lay Natural Philosophical Texts in Medieval England
Translations of works containing Arabic and ancient Greek knowledge of the philosophical and mechanical underpinnings of the natural world—a field of study called natural philosophy—were disseminated throughout twelfth-century England. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, institutional …