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The Franklin’s Tale

1996
Abstract In a number of manuscripts, including Hengwrt, the Merchant-Squire link is used as the Franklin’s Prologue, and the words that follow the unfinished Squire’s Tale are given, not to the Franklin, but to the Merchant, to introduce his tale.
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The Name of Kayrrud in the Franklin's Tale

The Chaucer Review, 2002
Where were Pedmark and Kayrrud? Walter W. Skeat took the first as Pointe de Penmarch, the southwestern tip of Brittany (nineteen miles southwest of Quimper), named after the village of Penmarch two miles inland. As for Kayrrud, Skeat could not find it on the map, but explained its name from Breton her 'town' and perhaps ruz 'red.'3 Since 1914 this ...
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Assembling the Times in the Metamorphoses, Filocolo, and Franklin’s Tale

, 2020
This chapter tracks the legacy of a depiction of temporal magic in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Medea’s creation of extra years for her aged father-in-law Aeson.
K. Gaston
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Networks of exchange in The Franklin's Tale

postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 2012
The narrative of The Franklin's Tale is based on a series of overlapping systems of reciprocal exchange, exchanges of marriage, of promises, and of money. For Claude Levi-Strauss, orders of exchange regulating kinship are the fundamental elements of social systems, and they operate like the laws of a language; the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan
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Pleasure and Responsibility in the Franklin’s Tale

2007
Abstract That the Franklin narrates a story about a happily married aristocratic couple involved in a courtly situation tells us something about his preferences and perhaps about his reading habits.1 The sympathy and warmth he feels for his chivalric hero and lady are obvious, yet it is equally obvious that they are but slightly ...
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Faith and Narrative: A Reading of The Franklin's Tale

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, 2005
This paper has a twofold objective: to outline a philosophy of narrative1 and to show how it applies to Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale. Central to both will be an elucidation of the concept of faith which is essential to that story. The aim is to show that troth, Chaucer's "trouthe," is ethically prior to truth in the epistemological sense.
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Narrative Closure in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale

Neophilologus, 2000
The happy ending of the Franklin's Tale is contrived by the tale's narrator in ways which should cause us to be suspicious of both his values and motives. The tale in effect "undoes" itself. At the end we see its principal characters carrying on as if the whole unpleasantness has never happened, while our attention is directed away from the blameworthy
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Holding Company: Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale in the Faerie Queene

Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 2023
H. Cooper
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Scabs and Sovereignty in the Franklin's Tale

, 2020
Rogers
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Dorigen's Lament and the Resolution of the Franklin's Tale

, 2002
W. S. Smith
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