Current Search: Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Criticism and interpretation (x)
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The Circle of Many Voices in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls.
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Creator
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Fleisher, Nancy Kay Gates, Faraci, Mary, Florida Atlantic University
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Abstract/Description
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Geoffrey Chaucer's poem. The Parliament of Fowls, has been acknowledged as an intricate dream vision of balanced contrasts of ideas, double entendre words, classical models, and rules of courtly love. Examining the heretofore unexamined voices invented by Chaucer's narrator, l found that the ancient grammatical term of "middle voice," employed in recent linguistic criticism and theory, served to place the narrator inside his world of reading, dreaming, and writing. As critic and poet. Chaucer...
Show moreGeoffrey Chaucer's poem. The Parliament of Fowls, has been acknowledged as an intricate dream vision of balanced contrasts of ideas, double entendre words, classical models, and rules of courtly love. Examining the heretofore unexamined voices invented by Chaucer's narrator, l found that the ancient grammatical term of "middle voice," employed in recent linguistic criticism and theory, served to place the narrator inside his world of reading, dreaming, and writing. As critic and poet. Chaucer offers the reader new ways to think about ancient literary themes of reading. writing, listening, and telling stories about love. The reader remains free to enjoy the narrator's voices in Parliament from the opening line, "The lyf so short, the craft so long to Ierne," through the roundel and closing.
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Date Issued
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2008
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000917
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Subject Headings
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Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Criticism and interpretation., Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.--Parliament of fowls--Criticism and interpretation., Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Political and social views., Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Document (PDF)
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Griselda and "knowing who you are": "The Clerk's Tale" and the "Consolation of Philosophy".
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Kaufman, James Nathan., Florida Atlantic University, Collins, Robert A.
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The actions of Griselda, heroine of The Clerk's Tale, Chaucer's study of humanly and womanly forbearance, are mirrored throughout the classical wisdom of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. The medieval tale's story is one of rational resistance to domination, even to that of a powerful and jealous husband. Griselda's ensuing struggle for self-liberation and "free will," by "looking within," echoes the neoplatonic and Boethian universal scheme: mutability transcends all Fortune. Griselda...
Show moreThe actions of Griselda, heroine of The Clerk's Tale, Chaucer's study of humanly and womanly forbearance, are mirrored throughout the classical wisdom of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. The medieval tale's story is one of rational resistance to domination, even to that of a powerful and jealous husband. Griselda's ensuing struggle for self-liberation and "free will," by "looking within," echoes the neoplatonic and Boethian universal scheme: mutability transcends all Fortune. Griselda finally arrives at knowing her own true nature, and the workings of Divine Providence.
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Date Issued
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1992
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14812
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Subject Headings
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Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Clerk's tale, Boethius,---524--Consolation of philosophy, Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Criticism and interpretation, Boethius,---524--Criticism and interpretation
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Document (PDF)
