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From:Books to Film: Cinematic Adaptations of Literary Works (Vol. 1. )Except for the works of Shakespeare, nothing has been celebrated as enthusiastically within the English literary canon as The Canterbury Tales, a rich tapestry of late medieval life by the British poet Geoffrey Chaucer....
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From:British Writers, Retrospective Supplement 2N. S. Thompson Introduction IF JOHN DRYDEN in 1700 was able to propose Geoffrey Chaucer as the “Father of English Poetry,” earlier generations had not only been copious with praise, but also had been quite specific...
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From:ELH (Vol. 61, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSigmund Freud's interpretation of Medusa's head explains the male fear of castration and the need of men to conquer this fear. Later psychoanalysts, particularly Jacques Lacan, extend this by explaining the social...
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 95, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedGeoffrey Chaucer equates voice with power in 'The Canterbury Tales' as he shows through his characterization of the women in the different tales. The only silent woman in the collection is Phebus's wife in the Manciple's...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe tale Chaucer's Man of Law tells regularly presents students with genuine interpretive perplexities. As I teach it in my Chaucer classes and in my "Medieval Women" class (both upper division and/or graduate...
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From:Parergon (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJoining a growing corpus of cinematic treatments of Chaucer's texts, the BBC's Canterbury Tales (2003) is the first to offer versions of the tales in modern dress. In order to attract a wide commercial audience, the...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English Studies (Vol. 42) Peer-Reviewed
Thou and ye: a collocational-phraseological approach to pronoun change in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
ABSTRACT Chaucer's use of the singular or plural form of the second person pronoun to address a single person in his Canterbury Tales usually follows the established standards of his time. However, some ninety... -
From:College Literature (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe only fully portrayed females on the pilgrimage to Canterbury, the Wife of Bath and the Prioress make a curious pair, which becomes an even more curious trio when we add the wife in the Shipman's Tale, whose sexual...
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From: Chaucer and the City[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Nolan discusses Chaucer's detailed descriptions in Troilus and Criseyde of dwellings and domestic spaces and then analyzes the abrupt movement away from these depictions to the...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE most successful attempts to demonstrate the unity of Fragment VII of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the longest and most diverse grouping of tales as they have come down to us, have treated it as a statement of...
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 95, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGeoffrey Chaucer did not use 'queynte' as a pun for cleverness in the 'Miller's Tale' section of "The Canterbury Tales," since the rhyme type on which this interpretation depends appears nowhere else within the Tales....
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 93, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGeoffrey Chaucer evokes the image of Christ as the Man of Sorrows through the Man in Black in the 'Book of the Duchess.' Taken out of its religious context, the image becomes symbolic of physical and mental pain. The...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)The appreciation of Geoffrey Chaucer has suffered a good deal in the past from his reputation as the ``Father of English poetry.'' It has been easy to think of him as a ``naif,'' the possessor of a charming simplicity of...
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From: Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Lynch describes The House of Fame as a parody of the classic literary genre of the dream poem. She argues that the work deconstructs not only the dreamer’s own ability to...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTwo stories in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' can be read as related narratives since both deal the with way men attempt to uphold their dominance in a patriarchal system. The 'Miller's Tale' deals with a man who...
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From: Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse[(essay date 1996) In the following excerpt, Grudin contends that The Book of the Duchess exemplifies the open-ended nature of Chaucerian discourse. Pointing out that the narrator is only one of several voices showcased...