ENGL 406 Lecture Notes - Geoffrey Chaucer, Bodleian Library, Courtly Love
5 Sep 2013
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Issues and concerns should be soundly based; not it was hard to read". Where it is on the shelf; system of cataloguing for libraries. Bodleian, ms douce 371, f. 12: housed in bodleian library (oxford, ms manuscript collection. F. 12 = folio 12 (12th page of manuscript 371 in the douce collection in the bodleian library at oxford) Only universal system that exists = from large to precise: ex. How does this compare to the book of the duchess: Not as sentimental as the book of the duchess. Narrator is more involved in the dream: less standoffish narrator, in the book of the duchess narrator didn"t really understand what was going on, resulted in him appearing standoffish. Page 282, he puts his hand in the dreamers hands and they walk in together; shows more involvement. Chaucer invokes dante: this garden is not hell or heaven; but a pleasant place. Place of courtly ideal: gardens are very symbolically important.
