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The Circle of Many Voices in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls
Title
The Circle of Many Voices in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls.
Creator
Fleisher, Nancy Kay Gates, Faraci, Mary, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
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
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000917
Subject Headings
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)
attack of the compilator
Title
The attack of the compilator: Chaucer's challenge of auctores and antifeminism in The Legend of Good Women.
Creator
Babrove, Franklin., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Geoffrey Chaucer's narrator persona in The Legend of Good Women (LGW) goes through a transformation, starting off in the Prologue to the LGW as a naèive compilator who is subordinate to his literary sources, or auctores, and eventually becoming an auctor himself by the end of the Legends. To gain an authoritative voice, Chaucer's narrator criticizes auctoritee as it pertains to the antifeminist tradition and its misrepresentation of women as inherently wicked, in the process using certain...
Show moreGeoffrey Chaucer's narrator persona in The Legend of Good Women (LGW) goes through a transformation, starting off in the Prologue to the LGW as a naèive compilator who is subordinate to his literary sources, or auctores, and eventually becoming an auctor himself by the end of the Legends. To gain an authoritative voice, Chaucer's narrator criticizes auctoritee as it pertains to the antifeminist tradition and its misrepresentation of women as inherently wicked, in the process using certain rhetorical devices and other literary strategies to assert control over his sources for the Legends, as well as over the text as a whole. Of particular importance in this process is the narrator's line "[a]nd trusteth, as in love, no man but me" (2561) occurring near the end of "The Legend of Phyllis," the penultimate legend in the LGW. At this point in the text, the narrator persona steps completely outside of the role of compilator and presents himself as auctor who can be trusted by his female readers to tell their stories fairly and sympathetically, in ways that subtly confront antifeminist texts and perceptions.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362330
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Literature, Medieval, Criticism and interpretation, Feminism in literature
Format
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The Subaltern Female Struggle for Power in Courtly Love France and Medieval Spain
Title
The Subaltern Female Struggle for Power in Courtly Love France and Medieval Spain.
Creator
Macbeth, Verna Michelle, Gamboa, Yolanda, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
In medieval France, much of the written literature was dominated by the system of courtly love, in which the married noble woman held the position of authority over her lover or knight. Yet this courtly system was entirely literary and did not change women's subjugated position in feudal society, and even propagated misogynistic ideals. In John Beverly's theory of Subalternity, the struggle for power within different systems is shown as having two main groups, the elite and the subaltern; the...
Show moreIn medieval France, much of the written literature was dominated by the system of courtly love, in which the married noble woman held the position of authority over her lover or knight. Yet this courtly system was entirely literary and did not change women's subjugated position in feudal society, and even propagated misogynistic ideals. In John Beverly's theory of Subalternity, the struggle for power within different systems is shown as having two main groups, the elite and the subaltern; the former having control over the representation of the latter, and therefore control over how the subaltern shapes its selfimage. In medieval, courtly love France, those who manufacture the literary representations of women are male, and those texts that aided in the re-affirming of feudal society; though some women, like Christine de Pizan, resisted those representations. Conversely, in medieval Spain, courtly love does not take hold as a literary phenomenon due to the different cultural and social environment of Spanish noble women.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000936
Subject Headings
Marginality, Social--France--To 1500, Marginality, Social--Spain--To 1500, Feminism and literature--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Women--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Man-woman relationships in literature, Literature, Medieval--Criticism and interpretation
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