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In the Event of the Franklin's Tale
The Chaucer Review, 2012 There is no truth to delimit in the event. Events come, if ever they arrive, to designate fields of pure possibility and emergent futurity. Consider one old tale of “diverse aventures” (V.710), Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale.1 Somewhere in Brittany, Dorigen is happily married to the knight Arveragus, having recently pledged ...
G. Edmondson
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The Uses of Enchantment in The Franklin’s Tale
Etudes Epistémè, 2014 Chaucer drew on several sources (essentially Boccaccio’s Decameron) and resorted to the Breton lays as a genre he imitated in The Franklin’s Tale. Courtly love, magic and supernatural situations make up the expected framework of the tale claiming to be ...
Martine Yvernault
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The Scene of the 'Franklin's Tale' Visited
The Modern Language Review, 1917 W. P. Ker, John S. P. Tatlock
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Geoffrey Chaucer’ın Canterbury Hikâyeleri Eserinde Toplumsal Cinsiyetin Sorunlu Temsili
Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2021 Geoffrey Chaucer’ın hacıların anlattıkları 24 hikâyeden oluşan Canterbury Hikâyeleri adlı eseri, yazarın yaşadığı toplumun bir panoramasını sunmaktadır. Hacıların birbirlerine anlattıkları bu hikâyeler, kadın ve erkek tasvirleri, saraylı aşkı, şövalyelik,
Emrah Atasoy
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Female Consent and Affective Resistance in Romance: Medieval Pedagogy and #MeToo
New Chaucer Studies, 2021 This essay offers several pedagogical strategies for teaching medieval romance in the time of #MeToo. Drawing on the robust feminist tradition that has focused on women’s compromised consent in romance narratives, as well as on the insights of trauma ...
Sara V. Torres, Rebecca F. McNamara
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Postpandemic Trauma in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Franklin’s Tale
Essays In Medieval Studies, 2023 Plague Pandemic (1348–50), popularly known as the “Black Death,” represented a cataclysmic event that reshaped late medieval society demographically, socioeconomically, politically, and culturally, with major repercussions on mental health.1 Many ...
Lorenz Hindrichen
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‘Ysworn… Withoute gilt:’ Lais of Illusion-Making Language in the Canterbury Tales
Etudes Epistémè, 2014 This essay argues that Chaucer’s interest in the Breton lay rests on the power of the genre’s association of magic and language. Examining the Wife of Bath’s Tale, a story that shares features with the Breton lay but is not marked as such, with the ...
Elizabeth Scala
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La musique du vers dans les lais bretons et le décasyllabe du Franklin’s Tale
Etudes Epistémè, 2014 This paper studies Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale, a self-styled Breton lay, and compares it to three typical Middle English Breton lays, Sir Launfal, Sir Orfeo and Lay le Freine. The Franklin’s Tale is written in pentameters while the other three are written
Colette Stévanovitch
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On the Religious Perception of a Thunderstorm and the Attitude to a Lightning Rod in Russia in the Second Half of the 18th Century [PDF]
Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарииOne document of 1799, related to the construction activity of the Russian Imperial Court, contains the refusal of Emperor Paul I to make a lightning rod on the spire of the church of St.
Nikolai I. Petrov
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