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Generational Tension In Middle English Lais, Amelia Carroll Napier
Generational Tension In Middle English Lais, Amelia Carroll Napier
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Corporate Chivalry In Malory's "Morte D'Arthur": Chivalric Guidebooks And A Fifteenth-Century Chivalric Ideal, Timothy Carlton Truxell
Corporate Chivalry In Malory's "Morte D'Arthur": Chivalric Guidebooks And A Fifteenth-Century Chivalric Ideal, Timothy Carlton Truxell
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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The Boethian Influence On The "Alliterative Morte D'Arthure", Suzann Wanda Voigt
The Boethian Influence On The "Alliterative Morte D'Arthure", Suzann Wanda Voigt
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Expectations As Character Development In Chaucer's Clerk's Tale, Kevin Gorham
Expectations As Character Development In Chaucer's Clerk's Tale, Kevin Gorham
Masters Theses
The Clerk of Oxenford in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is often maligned for lacking development as a literary character. Frequently, the Clerk has been dismissed as a stereotype or an ideal rather than a multi-dimensional character. The Clerk's character, much like the meaning of his tale, is concealed from the reader and veiled behind expectations.
Chaucer manipulates readers by exploiting expectations associated with fourteenth century clerks. These expectations derive from historical and literary stereotypes which constitute the General Prologue portrait of the Clerk. Because Chaucer's description of the Clerk is populated with stereotypes, the reader expects the Clerk to tell a …
Chaucer's "Nether Ye": A Study Of Chaucer's Use Of Scatology In The Canterbury Tales, Brook Wilson
Chaucer's "Nether Ye": A Study Of Chaucer's Use Of Scatology In The Canterbury Tales, Brook Wilson
Masters Theses
Chaucer's use of scatology throughout the Canterbury Tales offers a new frontier for Chaucerian research. To this date, no book-length work dealing exclusively with the scatological elements found in his works exists. Too often, the serious and artistic effects of scatology become lost in the great comedy the device generates. Furthermore, many readers and scholars seem to find themselves somewhat "squaymous" when confronted with the "nether ye" of Chaucer. While Chaucer employs scatology perhaps less frequently than Swift or Rabelais, his mastery of this device remains unquestionable.
Recognizing that the uses for scatology extend far beyond creating humor, Chaucer instead …