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The Franklin's Tale: Chaucer or the Critics
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1974The Franklin's Tale, which has caused much disagreement among critics of Chaucer, may best be understood in the light of Chaucer's own writings, particularly The Merchant's Tale and three short lyrics, “Truth,” “Gentilesse,” and “Lak of Stedfastnesse.” The relationship between the characters and events of the two Tales dramatizes a moral ideal that ...
G. White
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Speaking “Amys” in the Franklin’s Tale: Rhetoric, Truth, and the Poetria nova
, 2017 The Franklin's Prologue and Tale offer a model of poetic image-making derived from Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Poetria nova. The Franklin's exploration of the colors of rhetoric in his prologue anticipates the illusionist's ability to manipulate the black ...
J. Turner
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Iterability, Anthropocentrism, and the Franklin’s Tale
2018This chapter concerns what would seem to be one of Chaucer’s most anthropocentric poems: near the beginning of the Franklin’s Tale, a character expresses fear and hatred of coastal rocks; the rest of the story, preoccupied with human concerns (promises and adultery), seems to reduce the rocks to disposable impediments to human wishes.
Shawn Normandin
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The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism, 2023
:For a writer so disparaging about magic, Chaucer's understanding of occult practice seems to have been considerable. In the Squire's Tale, magic objects drive the (truncated) plot.
M. Driver
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:For a writer so disparaging about magic, Chaucer's understanding of occult practice seems to have been considerable. In the Squire's Tale, magic objects drive the (truncated) plot.
M. Driver
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