EN 1006 Lecture Notes - Indulgence, Frame Story, Middle Ages
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An introduction to major english authors in english. Tales of best sentence and most solas : chaucer and tale-telling. Use of humour asking questions about life death and spirituality. His irony, obsession with se, violence and fart-jokes. Language is written in a different form of english known as middle english. The vernacular in england from about 1100 to 1500. Literary culture of middle ages was more international than national. Latin was language of church or language of scholars. After 11th century, french dominant language of european culture. There is a startling different between middle english and our. Writers that came after chaucer made chaucer renowned as the major english author of the time. In the general prologue, a group of 30 pilgrims gather at the tabard inn in. A first person pronoun or a speaking eye ( geffray) and the post of the tavern (harry bailly) Harry bailly is the master of ceremonies for story telling context.