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Ironic Contradictions in the 'Pardoner’s Prologue' and the 'Pardoner’s Tale'

Author : Julia Geigenberger
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638029530
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Ironic Contradictions in the 'Pardoner’s Prologue' and the 'Pardoner’s Tale' written by Julia Geigenberger and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-03-28 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: B+ (79%), Bishop's University Lennoxville, language: English, abstract: The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer can be seen as an outstanding example of a jape. The shrewd Pardoner thinks he is able to play a game of confidence with the other pilgrims. According to the Middle English Dictionary, the noun “japerie” can also contain the meaning of irony, which is also true for the Prologue and the Tale. At the heart of the definition of irony lies incongruity or contradiction. The Oxford English Dictionary defines irony as: firstly, “[a] figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used; .... [secondly a] condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things (87). The Pardoner’s Prologue and the Pardoner’s Tale provide many facets illustrating ironic contradiction. Particularly interesting is to analyze the Pardoner himself, as he is definitely contradictory in his behaviour as well as in his statements. An analysis of the Pardoner’s presentation in his Prologue reveals the contradictions and the irony in the exemplum he chooses for his tale. The exemplum’s characters and actions not only mirror the ambiguous and complex character of the Pardoner, but also contain several instances of irony. Based on that, one can see how the Pardoner’s leitmotif, “Radix malorum est Cupiditas” (l. 334) unifies the ironic contradictions of the Prologue and of the Tale.

Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

Author : Marilyn Sutton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802047440
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale written by Marilyn Sutton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chaucer Bibliography series aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's work. This book summarizes 20th-century commentaries on Chaucer's "Pardoner's Prologue" and "Tale."

The Riverside Chaucer

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : American Chemical Society
ISBN 13 : 0199552096
Total Pages : 1386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Riverside Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by American Chemical Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.

Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349618772
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentieth-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice. Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is genuinely both premodern and postmodern. Drawing on theorists ranging from St. Augustine and Alain de Lille to Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sturges approaches the Pardoner as a representative of the construction of historical - and sexual - identities in a variety of historically specific discourses, and argues that medieval understandings of gender remain sedimented in postmodern discourse.

Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Pardoner's Tale

Author : Dewey R. Faulkner
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Pardoner's Tale written by Dewey R. Faulkner and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1973 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary critics and commentators examine and expound upon an important story in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Provides insight into a "classic gem of English literature."

Pasolini, Chaucer and Boccaccio

Author : Agnès Blandeau
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786422475
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Pasolini, Chaucer and Boccaccio written by Agnès Blandeau and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-07-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pier Pasolini's "trilogy of life" is a series of film adaptations of major texts of the past: The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, and One Thousand and One Nights. The movies demonstrate a film author's acute aesthetic sensibility through a highly original cinematic rendering of the sources. The first two films, closely examined in this book, offer a personal, purposefully stylized vision of the Middle Ages, as though Pasolini were dreaming Boccaccio's and Chaucer's texts through the filter of his "heretic" consciousness. The unusual poetic visualization of the source works, which could be described as irreverent cinematic homage, has the potential to renew the traditional reading of such literature. This book shows how cinema becomes an alternative form of storytelling. It first studies the two films in detail, putting them in perspective within the trilogy. Next it interprets them, recounting misinterpretations and expounding upon Pasolini's ideological perception, and defends the oft-criticized adaptations. Finally, it discusses how the films represent innovation over strict adaptation. Appendices offer charts with information on the narrative structures of the films and the correspondences between them.

The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039334178X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.

ÔJaniform NovelsÕ and other Literary Essays

Author : Cedric Watts
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326838776
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book ÔJaniform NovelsÕ and other Literary Essays written by Cedric Watts and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Janiform Novels' and Other Literary Essays gathers 25 essays by Cedric Watts, MA, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English at Sussex University. Previously published in a diversity of magazines and books, these conveniently-gathered literary discussions deal with such authors as Sophocles, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Milton, Defoe, Richardson, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Conrad, Hemingway, Graham Greene, William Golding, Samuel Beckett and Chinua Achebe. Topics include covert plotting, the conceit of the conceit, the fallacies of structuralist and post-structuralist literary theory, delayed decoding, Shakespeare's scepticism, Conrad's opposition to racism and imperialism, Hemingway's profoundly ambiguous style, and Lévi-Strauss's ludicrous naivety. Cedric Watts's critical writings have been described as 'fearless', 'perceptive', 'provocative', 'incisive' and 'entertaining' (Neil Sinyard, Graham Greene Newsletter).

Canterbury Tales

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century

Author : Henry Stanley Bennett
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century written by Henry Stanley Bennett and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wife of Bath`s Prologue in Chaucer`s Canterbury Tales

Author : Kathrin Richter
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638118967
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Wife of Bath`s Prologue in Chaucer`s Canterbury Tales written by Kathrin Richter and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0 (A), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Institute for Anglistics), course: Seminar: Chaucer, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction Alison, the Wife of Bath, is one of the most interesting characters in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Her tale and her prologue to this tale are different from the other tales since here the narrator is obviously more important than the tale itself: The prologue is about twice as long as the tale itself, considerably longer than any of the other prologues to individual tales. Of Chaucer's 29 pilgrims, only three are female. The fact that it is being told from the female point of view is crucial both to the Wife of Bath's prologue and to her. The main topic of her prologue is marriage and how women should deal with their husbands. Alison displays many characteristics which were ascribed to the stereotypical `wicked woman' in Chaucer's times and her prologue is supposed to be the typical opinion of women. However, there is more to the Wife of Bath than that. Chaucer creates a very complex individual who is the topic of the following discussion. [...]

The prioresses tale, Sire Thopas, the Monkes tale

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The prioresses tale, Sire Thopas, the Monkes tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chaucer and his English Contemporaries

Author : Tony Davenport
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349267384
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer and his English Contemporaries written by Tony Davenport and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1998-07-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern ways of presenting Chaucer have often made his work seem 'normal' so that The Canterbury Tales and its much-studied General Prologue are seen as archetypes of narrative and prologue. Tony Davenport argues that study of Chaucer's major work alongside contemporary English poems reveals the odd and extreme aspects of Chaucer's writing as well as the daring and experimental qualities in his work. The focus of the book is on strategies of narrative and discourse, but also includes discussion of other much-studied Middle English poems.

The Floure and the Leafe and the Assembly of Ladies

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719008085
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Floure and the Leafe and the Assembly of Ladies written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chaucer's Sexual Poetics

Author : Carolyn Dinshaw
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299122744
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Sexual Poetics written by Carolyn Dinshaw and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of the poems Chaucers wordes Unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women, the Man of Law's Tale, the Wife of Bath's Tale and its Prologue, the Clerk's Tale, and the Pardoner's Tale, Carolyn Dinshaw offers a provocative argument on medieval sexual constructs and Chaucer's role in shaping them. Operating under the assumption that people read and write certain ways based upon society's demands, Dinshaw examines gender identity and the effects of a patriarchal society. The focal point of Dinshaw's argument is the idea that the literary text can be seen as the female body while any literary activities upon the text are decidedly male. Through a series of six provocative essays, Dinshaw argues that Chaucer was not only aware that gender is a social construction, but that he self-consciously worked to oppose the dominance of masculinity that a patriarchal society places on texts by creating works in which gender identity and hierarchy were more fluid.

Chaucer in context

Author : S. H. Rigby
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526148242
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer in context written by S. H. Rigby and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amongst the most written about works of English literature, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales still defy categorization, claims the author of this book. Was Chaucer a poet of profound religious piety or a sceptic who questioned all religious and moral certainties? Do his pilgrims reflect the society of the day, or were they a product of an already well-established literary tradition and convention? Surveying and assessing competing critical approaches to Chaucer's work, this text emphasizes a need to see Chaucer in historical context; the context of the social and political concerns of his own day.

Chaucer's Dante

Author : Richard Neuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520348745
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Dante written by Richard Neuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human. Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "epic theater," Neuse underscores the interest of both poets in presenting, as on a stage, flesh and blood characters in which readers would recognize the authors as well as themselves. As spiritual autobiography, both poems challenge the traditional medieval mode of allegory, with its tendency to separate body and soul, matter and spirit. Thus Neuse demonstrates that Chaucer and Dante embody a humanism not generally attributed to the fourteenth century. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.