ENGL 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Courtly Love, Palamon And Arcite, Frame Story
6 Sep 2016
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Does not need to have a moral lesson. Has two levels of meaning: literal and metaphor. First portion (story of cador and euphemie): avorous. Reason sides with nurture on the side of silence"s battle with nature and nurture. The gender of malduit is revealed at the end of the book not the mid point. In the midpoint the poetic is revealed not chivalric. Silence is forced to marry and that doesn"t mimic the marriage of her parents. Who is the author of canterbury tales: geoffry chaucer. What is the life span of chaucer: 1343-1400. What is the language of the readings: english. Balad- lyric poem, 3-4 verses, rhyming couplets: each of the versus ended with the same line. What was the final line of chaucer"s balad: though he wear crown. All the other readings were taken from what work: canterbury tales. Genre of the canterbury tales: frame narrative.
