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    Types of Attributive Constructions in Middle English Poetry by E. A. Nilsen, I. K. Mashko

    Published 2025-04-01
    “…The research is carried out on the material of the original text of Geoffrey Chaucer's ‘The Canterbury Tales’ and the text of its modern adaptation, presented on the website of Harvard University. …”
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    A Tale of Two Travellers in King Alfred’s Court by Miguel Alarcão

    Published 2024-01-01
    “…Considering just the English medieval case, it seems reasonable to assume that some sorts or forms of travel writing, literary or otherwise, must have existed before such canonical texts as The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, the anonymous The Land of Cockaygne or Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (14th century). Indeed, the two short accounts I will present were added to, and included in, the Old English translation of Paulus Orosius’s Historiarum (or Historiae) adversum Paganos Libro Septem (5th century), ordered by, and made for, Alfred the Great, King of Wessex (871-899)…”
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    Spatio-temporal systems in Chaucer’s language: A discourse-pragmatic analysis by Minako Nakayasu

    Published 2019-12-01
    “…The text used for analysis is “The knight’s tale” adopted from the Riverside edition of The Canterbury tales. Language has built-in spatio-temporal systems by which speakers judge how distant the situations they wish to express are from their domain, i.e. proximal or distal. …”
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    Chaucer and the problem of the pre-Renaissance by Irena Varnaitė

    Published 1974-09-01
    “…The poem "Troilus and Criseyde" and the "Canterbury Tales" bring Chaucer nearest to the Renaissance; it is in them that the literary tendencies of the pre-Renaissance are most tangible. …”
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    The Wife of Bath’s Sexual Poetics and Politics of Food and Drink by Oya Bayıltmış Öğütcü

    Published 2024-06-01
    “…In contrast to the predominant misogynistic discourse of medieval English society, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales is renowned for her arguments in favor of sexuality and female authority, which depicts her as a woman who was years ahead of her time. …”
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    Problems of the analysis of Chaucer's poems by Irena Varnaitė

    Published 1973-12-01
    “… Chaucer appears a great and highly original English national poet already in his five poems written before "The Canterbury Tales". He is still dependent on the mediaeval literary conventions: "The Book of the Duchess", "The Parliament of Fowls", "The House of Fame", and "The Legend of Good Women" have the traditional form of a dream-vision.Conventional moral categories — Pity, Cruelty, Pleasure, etc. — are personified in the poems. …”
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    When the Voice of the Refugee is Heard: Sharing Experiences of Detention in Refugee Tales IV by Francisco Fuentes Antrás

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…By emulating some of the main themes and features of The Canterbury Tales, these stories shed light on the traumatic experiences many refugees face in the U.K. and other countries with regard to their indefinite detention and a legal system that marginalizes them. …”
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