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Wheeler, Lyle Kip. ""Of pilgrims and parables" : the influence of the Vulgate parables on Chaucer's Canterbury tales /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3024538.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-261). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Ganze, Alison. "Seeking Trouthe in Chaucer's Canterbury tales /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3153784.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-194). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Jauquet-Jessup, Marilee. "Chaucer: An Understanding of the Sexes." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1352140691.

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Bigley, Michael Erik. "Musicality, subjectivity, and the Canterbury tales." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2007. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05312007-110614.

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Ward, Rachel. "Completeness and incompleteness in Geoffrey Chaucer's The canterbury tales." Scholarly Commons, 1994. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/509.

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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 made between the 'finished-ness' of works and their completeness as a factor in aesthetic enjoyment. It is noted that some works, though unfinished, are nevertheless complete aesthetically. Various aspects of completeness are defined, discussed, and considered, including absolute, thematic, plot, autho

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Klerks, Suzanne (Suzanne Elizabeth) Carleton University Dissertation English. "The Making of a monster; the female grotesque in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Ottawa, 1992.

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Johns, Alessa. "Joyce and Chaucer : the historical significance of similarities between Ulysses and the Canterbury tales." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63365.

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Marcotte, Andrea. "Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: Rhetoric and Gender in Marriage." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2007. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/591.

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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 between husband and wife. Existing hierarchies restricted women; therefore, marriage fittingly presented more obstacles for women. Chaucer creates the dynamic personalities of the Wife of Bath, the Clerk and the Merchant to debate marriage intelligently while citing their experiences within marriage in th

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Youmans, Karen DeMent. "Chaucer and the Rhetorical Limits of Exemplary Literature." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279341/.

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Though much has been made of Chaucer's saintly characters, relatively little has been made of Chaucer's approach to hagiography. While strictly speaking Chaucer produced only one true saint's life (the Second Nun's Tale), he was repeatedly intrigued and challenged by exemplary literature. The few studies of Chaucer's use of hagiography have tended to claim either his complete orthodoxy as hagiographer, or his outright parody of the genre. My study mediates the orthodoxy/parody split by viewing Chaucer as a serious, but self-conscious, hagiographer, one who experimented with the possibilities o

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McCormack, Frances. "Chaucer and the culture of dissent the Lollard context and subtext of the Parson's tale /." Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2007. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/156890795.html.

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Walsh, Morrissey Jake. "The world "up so doun" : plague, society, and the discourse of order in the Canterbury tales." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83845.

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Witnesses believed that the Black Death and subsequent fourteenth-century plagues threatened profound social change. However, Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400) does not appear to accord the plague a place of any importance in his works. This is especially surprising in the case of the Canterbury Tales , which presents a complex portrait of plague-era society. Chaucer's silence on the plague is reinforced by critical positions that deemphasize the effects of the plague and emphasize Chaucer's supposed lack of interest in his world. This thesis contends that the plague is in fact present in

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Mathur, Indira. "Beyond monologism : a study of the system-event dialectics in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Toulouse 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOU20071.

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La thèse porte sur un des ouvrages médiévaux les plus connus en anglais, notamment Les Contes de Cantorbéry de Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 – cc. 1400). L’étude vise à définir la démarche créative de Chaucer à travers les Contes. Nous nous appuyons pour cela sur la théorie bakhtinienne selon laquelle la création événementielle prend forme dans un double mouvement ; elle repose sur un système tout en s'écartant de ce même système. L'étude que nous proposons s'articule autour de trois axes d'analyse. Le point de départ se situe au niveau de la focalisation narrative. Notre démarche constitue à définir

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Canter, Zachary A. "Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, and The Canterbury Tales: Parallels in the Comic Genius of Henry Fielding and Geoffrey Chaucer." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3036.

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The parallels between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Henry Fielding are very striking. Both authors produced some of the greatest works in English literature, yet very little scholarly investigation has been done regarding these two in relationship with one another. In this work I explore the characters of Chaucer’s Parson and Parson Adams, assessing their strengths and weaknesses through pastoral guides by Gregory the Great and George Herbert, while drawing additional conclusions from John Dryden. I examine the episodic, theatrical nature of both authors’ works, along with the inclusion of

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Flewellyn, Meghan. "Medieval Feminine Humanism and Geoffrey Chaucer's Presentation of the Anti-Cecilia." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2009. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/998.

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Perhaps due to its seemingly straightforward religious nature, the Second Nun's Cecelia Legend in The Canterbury Tales is often dismissed by scholars 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. Further, the etymology of key words which appear in the "Second Nun's Prologue and Tale" help to reinforce the satire which Chaucer creates. Chaucer has deleted

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Blandeau, Agnès. "The Canterbury Tales et Il Decameron visualisés par Pasolini : quand le récit prend corps en image." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040110.

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Tournant décisif dans le paysage littéraire médiéval occidental, peu après Il Decameron, The Canterbury Tales consacrent la richesse d'une langue vernaculaire à travers l'expérimentation stylistique et rhétorique, tout en soulignant la narrativité mais aussi l'écriture du texte en train de se faire. Pier Paolo Pasolini puise dans le corps des oeuvres de Boccace et Chaucer l'esprit d'un moyen âge (fantasmé), dont il célèbre la vie. Il y voit également le théâtre privilégié d'une pratique de l'art jubilatoire du récit. L'adaptation ou plutôt vision pasolinienne des Tales, mis en regard avec Il D

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Cosgrove, Walker Reid. "Enacted medieval spirituality on the page the Divine comedy and the Canterbury tales elucidating the internal and external pilgrimage of Margery Kempe /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Wodzak, Victoria. "Reading dinosaur bones : marking the transition from orality to literacy in the Canterbury Tales, Moll Flanders, Clarissa, and Tristram Shandy /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9823336.

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Driscoll, William. "By the Will of the King: Majestic and Political Rhetoric in Ricardian Poetry." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22801.

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The stories we tell give meaning and coherence to our political situation; they reproduce, interrogate, and, at times, challenge the discourse of authority. Thus, when the political situation changes so do our narratives. In the thirteenth century, responding to a majestic rhetoric of vis et voluntas (force and will), the barons strengthened the community of the realm by turning it into a powerful collective identity that fostered political alliances with the gentry. By The Will of the King demonstrates how Ricardian poetry was shaped by and responded to the conflict between majestic and po

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LaBurre, Jennifer. ""Wood Leoun" . . . "Crueel Tigre": Animal Imagery and Metaphor in "The Knight's Tale"." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/125.

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The people of the Middle Ages believed animals were disconnected from themselves in terms of ability to reason and ability to resist passions. Humans and animals were created by God, but he bestowed man with a soul and the ability to resist earthly delights. When men were described in terms of their bestial counterparts it was conventionally meant to highlight 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 b

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Sandberg, Truedson J. ""What do the divils find to laugh about" in Melville's The Confidence-Man." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6978.

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The failure of identity in The Confidence-Man has confounded readers since its publication. To some critics, Melville's titular character has seemed to leave his readers in a hopelessness without access to confidence, identity, trust, ethical relationality, and, finally, without anything to say. I argue, however, that Melville's text does not leave us without hope. My argument, consequently, is inextricably bound to a reading of Melville's text as deeply engaged with the concepts it inherits from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, an inheritance woefully under-examined by those critics w

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Yankoviak, Michael Robert. "Chaucer and Social Discontent in the Canterbury Tales." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391765600.

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Wu, Hsiang-mei. "Chaucer and prejudices : a critical study of 'The Canterbury Tales'." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/58523/.

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This thesis investigates the prejudices in Geoffrey Chaucer‘s The Canterbury Tales. There are thirty pilgrims and twenty-two tales in this grand work. As it is unlikely to discuss all of them in one thesis, I focus my research on four pilgrims—the Miller, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and the Pardoner—to demonstrate Chaucer‘s prejudices in various aspects. The chapter on the Miller analyzes how men and women interact in sexual terms in the public domains and private spaces, investigating the poet‘s sexual discrimination in his final distribution of punishments for the characters as well as h

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Walsh, Morrissey Jake. ""Termes of phisik": Reading between literary and medical discourses in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and John Lydgate's Dietary." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103533.

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This dissertation demonstrates that the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate joined nonliterary medical texts in transporting medical discourse into the English language and culture. In the later-fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the production of Middle English medical and literary texts increased dramatically. These categories overlapped at the site of medical verse. I show that authors of imaginative fiction also wrote what is in effect medical verse by employing medical discourse in stand-alone poems and in passages embedded in longer works. As Chaucer and Lydgate became central i

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Workman, Jameson Samuel. "Chaucerian metapoetics and the philosophy of poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8cf424fd-124c-4cb0-9143-e436c5e3c2da.

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This thesis places Chaucer within the tradition of philosophical poetry that begins in Plato and extends through classical and medieval Latin culture. In this Platonic tradition, poetry is a self-reflexive epistemological practice that interrogates the conditions of art in general. As such, poetry as metapoetics takes itself as its own object of inquiry in order to reinforce and generate its own definitions without regard to extrinsic considerations. It attempts to create a poetic-knowledge proper instead of one that is dependant on other modes for meaning. The particular manner in which this

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Garcia, Mariechristine. "Explorations of Women's Narrative Agency in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2155.

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This paper explores the extent to which the female characters in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales exercise any degree of narrative agency. Using both literary and historical approaches, this paper specifically discusses the cases of three of Chaucer’s women: Virginia, Griselda, and the Wife of Bath.

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Nelson, Sharity. "Between "Ernest" and "Game": The Aesthetics of Knowing and Poetics of "Witte" in William Langland's Piers Plowman and Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13420.

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A common assumption in theories of the aesthetic is that it is a concept and experience that belongs to modernity. However, as Umberto Eco has shown, the aesthetic was a topic of great consideration by medieval thinkers. As this project demonstrates in the study of the poetry of William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer, the aesthetic was, in fact, a dynamic and complex concept in the Middle Ages that could affirm institutional ideologies even as it challenged them and suggested alternative perspectives for comprehending truth. This project focuses on the ways in which the poets' respective vernac

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Farmer, Jennifer R. "Queering canterbury." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1079.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Humanities<br>English Literature

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Brandon, Robert R. II. ""And Gladly Wolde He Teche": Chaucer's Use of Source Materials in the "Clerk's Tale."." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2003. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/748.

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Few of Chaucer’s works provoke such animosity as does his “Clerk’s Tale.” Modern critics are divided by the social and gender issues that to which the tale lends itself. However, the tale was immensely popular to Middle Age audiences and was one of the best loved of the Canterbury Tales. Therefore, to dismiss this tale’s literary values outright, as some critics have done, is a mistake. By examining the history of the Griselda story, Chaucer’s use of his source materials, and the tales placement within the Canterbury Tales, this thesis is an attempt to examine the tale in more culturally, reli

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Malo, Roberta. "Saints' relics in medieval English literature." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1186329116.

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Tracy, Bauer A. "The Pardoner's Consolation: Reading The Pardoner's Fate Through Chaucer's Boethian Source." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1619274562731637.

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Langdell, Sebastian James. "Religious reform, transnational poetics, and literary tradition in the work of Thomas Hoccleve." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a2e8eb46-5d08-405d-baa9-24e0400a47d8.

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This study considers Thomas Hoccleve’s role, throughout his works, as a “religious” writer: as an individual who engages seriously with the dynamics of heresy and ecclesiastical reform, who contributes to traditions of vernacular devotional writing, and who raises the question of how Christianity manifests on personal as well as political levels – and in environments that are at once London-based, national, and international. The chapters focus, respectively, on the role of reading and moralization in the Series; the language of “vice and virtue” in the Epistle of Cupid; the moral version of C

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Wu, Che-yen, and 吳哲硯. "The Game Is Not Over: The Elements of Play in Geoffrey Chaucer''s The Canterbury Tales." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36657498829400123172.

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碩士<br>國立政治大學<br>英國語文研究所<br>92<br>In many places of The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer points out that this story-telling contest would be a game. However, researches on this text have scarcely been done from the perspective of game. In view of this, I try to apply Jonah Huizinga and Roger Caillois’ concepts of game as the main theoretical framework to The Canterbury Tales. In this thesis, I justify the pilgrimage as a big game first and then discuss the elements of play in three tales respectively. The thesis is divided into five chapters. In chapter one, I recount the subordinate positio

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Chaskalson, Lorraine. "Or telle his tale untrewe : an enquiry into a narrative strategy in the Canterbury Tales." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16499.

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In this thesis I discuss aspects of Chaucer's interest in the relation of Language to the reality which it attempts to express and the relation of poetic fiction to Christian truth, and the type of readerly response invited by this interest. The method employed includes analysis of the structural development of the narrative frame and, to a lesser degree, of the entirety of the poem, as well as discussion of the historical context of the issues under consideration. These issues are raised in the narrative frame of the Canterbury Tales and are explored there and in the individual tale

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Slabyhoudová, Zuzana. "Canterburské povídky v českém překladu Františka Vrby: lingvistická analýza." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-328781.

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The diploma thesis offers a philological analysis of František Vrba's translation into Czech of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The paper is composed of three major parts: "Theoretical background", "Hypothesis and Method", and "Analysis". The analysis addresses matters of lexical, syntactic, stylistic, metrical and cultural nature. The analysis focuses on The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale as convenient manifestations of stylistic variation, cross-generic links and structural correspondences and contrasts in The Canterbury Tales.

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Horn, Adam. "Presumption and Despair: The figure of Bernard in Middle English imaginative literature." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-f5jd-4714.

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This dissertation pursues two distinct but parallel projects in relation to the work of Bernard of Clairvaux and Middle English imaginative literature. First, I argue for a Bernardine anagogical lens as a way to better understand the deepest theological commitments and most distinctive formal innovations of certain key Middle English literary texts, especially Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales. Second, I outline a more genealogical project, tracing the figure of Bernard as it is explicitly invoked in widely circulated Middle English works including Piers, The Parson’s Tale, and the Prick

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Tang, Hsiang-Lin, and 湯祥麟. "Life and Narrative: Chaucer as a Heideggerian Knight in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08131008347771489463.

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碩士<br>國立成功大學<br>外國語文學系碩博士班<br>91<br>This thesis attempts to bring narrative and life together so as to facilitate the reading of Chaucer as a Heideggerian knight in his quest of Being in life and meaning in narrative. To Chaucer, what death is to life, ending is to narrative. In the Canterbury Tales the most problematical is Chaucer’s Retraction in which Chaucer erases all his works except those concerned with moral and Christianity. But ironically, no tales attract more readers’attention than those bawdy tales whose (feigned) authors, according to Chaucer the pilgrim, are morally inferior and

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"Chaucer Live! How Performance Helps Realize the Many Chaucerian Voices in the Prologue of the Canterbury Tales." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2015-09-2187.

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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 many voices of Chaucer in a more liberated manner. I present my case in four sections. First, I discuss the theoretical concepts behind the performance, which includes the value of live performance over silent reading and oral recitation and how the performance should be viewed in an experimental cont

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Lanpher, Ann. "The Problem of Revenge in Medieval Literature: Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, and Ljósvetninga Saga." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24360.

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This dissertation considers the literary treatment of revenge in medieval England and Iceland. Vengeance and feud were an essential part of these cultures; far from the reckless, impulsive action that the word conjures up in modern minds, revenge was considered both a right and a duty and was legislated and regulated by social norms. It was an important tool for obtaining justice and protecting property, family, and reputation. Accordingly, many medieval literary works seem to accept revenge without question. Many, however, evince a great sensitivity to the ambiguities and paradoxes inheren

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Hobbs, Donna Elaine. "Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/19594.

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My dissertation demonstrates the importance of an examination of the literary works included as part of the curriculum in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English grammar schools both for understanding the instruction of generations of schoolchildren and for reading the Middle English literature created and read by those trained in these schools. As Chapter 1 explains, thirty-four extant manuscripts used in an educational context in late medieval England, listed with their contents in the Appendix, suggest the identification of seven literary works that appear to have been taught most often:

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