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Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales
This thesis is concerned with musicality as an interpretive category in the reading of Middle English literature in both lyric and narrative texts. The anonymous musical lyrics of thirteenth century England emphasize the individual subjectivity of the speaker, a quality which is enhanced by their …
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Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales
This thesis is concerned with musicality as an interpretive category in the reading of Middle English literature in both lyric and narrative texts. The anonymous musical lyrics of thirteenth century England emphasize the individual subjectivity of the speaker, a quality which is enhanced by their …
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The place of "Melibee" in The Canterbury Tales
… little attempt has been made to understand the tale's content and the reason for its popularity in the Middle Ages. However, D. W. Robertson, in his reevaluation of the headlink between "Sir Thopas" and "Melibee" concludes that Chaucer intended ''Melibee" to contain all the sententious …
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Chaucer's use of folk material in the Canterbury Tales
A literary writer, even if he is concerned with the most topical subjects, cannot remain incubated within his own period and zeitgeist. He assimilates the whole cultural background of the past as it survives in the present. Just as, in the individual, the adult is the product of his youth and …
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Completeness and incompleteness in Geoffrey Chaucer's The canterbury tales
<p>The author commences with an analysis of the nature of completeness in a variety of situations and media, including visual arts, music, video arts and literature. "Completeness" is determined to be both difficult to define and subject to any individual's personal interpretation. A distinction is …
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The development of twentieth century criticisms of The Canterbury tales
<p>It will be the purpose of this thesis to survey and to evaluate twentieth-century criticisms of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Because the topic is so broad, it is necessary to find methods of limiting the subject so that it· may be adequately covered herein. This paper will be limited primarily to …
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Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: Rhetoric and Gender in Marriage
<p>In the Middle Ages, marriage represented a shift in the balance of power for both men and women. Struggling to define what constitutes the ideal marriage in medieval society, the marriage group of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales attempts to reconcile the ongoing battle for sovereignty …
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The Allusions to the Saints in the Canterbury Tales, Their Appropriateness
… commentaries on Chaucer's allusions to saints in the Canterbury Tales. The allusions have been studied in connection with the narrator of the tale, the lines, the characters, and the general spirit of the tale to ascertain possible reasons for making reference to the saint in a particular …
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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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Chaucer's Use of Rheoric in the "General Prologue" and Linkages of The Canterbury Tales
<p>The intent of this study is to discuss rhetoric in relation to the "General Prologue" and headlinks of the Canterbury Tales, and, by applying medieval rhetorical tradition to the "General Prologue," to question the long held view that the "Prologue" is without model or antecedent in tradition, …
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The unpunctuated Chaucer : a guide to reading the Medieval manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales.
The medieval manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are, in the modern sense, unpunctuated. That is, no commas, semicolons, question marks, or quotation marks existed in the fourteenth century. In spite of that fact, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century readers presumably had no problems reading …
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Chaucer's 'Book of Genesis' in 'The Canterbury Tales': The Biblical 'Schema' of The First Fragment
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Weasels and Angels: Rhetorical and Communicative Strength and Weakness in Selected Women of The Canterbury Tales
This thesis looks at the communicative methods and rhetorical strategies of five women characters found in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales through the lens of Helene Cixous's description of written female language as applied spoken language to examine the dichotomy of "weakness in strength" and …
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Chaucer Live! How Performance Helps Realize the Many Chaucerian Voices in the Prologue of the Canterbury Tales
The purpose of the paper is to clarify and elaborate on the theories and presentation of the performance of the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales I gave on April 9th, 2015. Live performance is a valuable method of conveying Chaucer’s work to an audience as it allows an actor to present the …
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The power of the medieval Solomon-magus and Solomon-auctor revealed through the "Canterbury Tales", "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", and the "Tale of the Sankgreal"
<p>The Solomon-<em>auctor</em> and Solomon-<em> magus</em> traditions begin in the biblical record, and attribute authority to Solomon not only through his ever-familiar wisdom but also his authorship of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs; his administration and craftsmanship in the building …
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Individual Spirituality and The Canterbury Tales: An Analysis of the Philosophical Connection Between The Tale of Melibee and The Parson’s Tale as It Operates within the Narrative Framework
<p>An analysis of both the placement and the philosophical connections between <em>The Tale of Melibee</em> and <em>The Parson’s Tale</em> suggests that a highly individual spiritual philosophy is being presented within <em>The Canterbury Tales</em>. This philosophy is exemplified via an analysis …
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