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The Men and Woman Behind the Franklin's Tale
The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism, 2022:This article links the Franklin's Tale to England's cross-Channel territorial ambitions in the years immediately preceding and following the peace of Brétigny.
B. Kowalik
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Conflicting Promises in the Book of Joshua and Chaucer’s “Franklin’s Tale”
ANQ. A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, 2022Chaucer’s handling of promises in “The Franklin’s Tale” has often seemed implausible to modern readers. Many critics have focused on Dorigen’s rash promise. The fact that she promises “in pley” (line 988) to love the squire Aurelius makes the rest of the
Shawn Normandin, Herim Kim
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Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 964
The Explicator, 2023With respect to editions of Chaucer in particular, this lack of concern for punctuation has indeed been essentially, if not entirely, the case. F. N. Robinson, the editor of what was for many years the standard scholarly edition of Chaucer (Robinson 1933,
D. Kempton
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Dwelling with Humans and Nonhumans: Neighboring Ethics in The Franklin's Tale
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 2019:In this article I propose a merger of neighbor theory with insights drawn from the clustered fields of ecocriticism, posthumanism, and new materialism to analyze Chaucer's representation of the ethical dilemmas appending the interrelation of humans and ...
Emily Houlik-Ritchey
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 2019
:When Dorigen's friends console her in The Franklin's Tale, the Franklin says that their words take effect in the same way that engraving makes an impression in a stone.
Alastair Bennett
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:When Dorigen's friends console her in The Franklin's Tale, the Franklin says that their words take effect in the same way that engraving makes an impression in a stone.
Alastair Bennett
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Dorigen’s Boundless Subjectivity in Chaucer’s The Franklin’s Tale
Pmla-publications of The Modern Language Association of AmericaThis essay argues that in Chaucer’s The Franklin’s Tale, Dorigen develops a selfhood that remains unflinchingly available to others. While the tale’s men pursue a closed selfhood subtended by chivalric expectations for heroic masculinity, Dorigen’s ...
Robyn A. Bartlett, Holly A. Crocker
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Closing History: Honor, Greimas, and the Franklin’s Tale
The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism:This article responds to the following problem: why does Arveragus’s abandonment of his wife to pursue honor go unquestioned by everyone in the Franklin’s Tale, including the wife herself?
Shawn Normandin
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Janus at the Portal: Time and Magic in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Franklin’s Tale
Studies in the Age of Chaucer:At the dead center of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Franklin’s Tale, the narrative abruptly halts for a lyrical chronographic passage. It is a puzzling interlude, distinct with astrological, alchemical, and mythic themes, and I argue that it acts as a hinge ...
S. Williams
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Abiding Tides: Oceanic Influences on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale
Yearbook of English Studies:Geoffrey Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale often appears in ecocritical analyses because its plot hinges upon a promise to remove rocks from intertidal Brittany.
Rachel Linn Shields
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PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1901
The Canterbury pilgrims, more fortunate than we, had heard to the end the Squire's Tale, and were busy exchanging with one another looks of approval and satisfaction. Now was the Franklin's opportunity. He determined to be the one to break the significant silence and become the spokesman of the praise of his companions, not only by reason of his very ...
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The Canterbury pilgrims, more fortunate than we, had heard to the end the Squire's Tale, and were busy exchanging with one another looks of approval and satisfaction. Now was the Franklin's opportunity. He determined to be the one to break the significant silence and become the spokesman of the praise of his companions, not only by reason of his very ...
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