HUM 001B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Geoffrey Chaucer, Italian Literature, Fusional Language
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Lecture 20: geoffrey chaucer: medieval master of diversity in language, character, & Influenced by italian literature: dante, boccaccio, petrarch: canterbury tales: represents dialects of english (cid:440)from every shires ende. (cid:441, suggested that gender was not innate but acquired, and performed. Talked about gender identities, may be bored w/ them b/c of how society perceives them. Interested in everyday life of ppl: used many european genres: fabliaux, dream-vision, saint"s life, frame-tale, and others. Fabliaux: a short comin w/ bawdy elements and coarse language. Sermon/exemplum: the latter is a moral tale intended to teach a lesson. Fairy romance: a moral is abducted or falls in love w/ a fairy, from whom he gets gifts and other boons. Beast fable: talking beasts: chivalric tale, juxtaposed authoritative/ literary and everyday knowledge, different syntax and pronunciation in french, describe the background of canterbury tales and its structure, plague (first outbreak in england, 1348-9) and reurbanization.
