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Chaucer and his prioress: feigning silence in the "Prioress's Tale" and "Chaucer's Retraction"Burt, Cameron Bryce 03 September 2010 (has links)
This study provides a new reading of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale and considers its purpose within the context of the Canterbury Tales. I argue that the Tale, as an exemplum, demonstrates the dangers of tale-telling, and exposes the moral discrepancies of the Canterbury tale-telling competition and the pilgrims’ use of stories as verbal assaults against one another. I argue that the Tale condemns the unchristian-like “actions” of the Christians within its frame as they respond to the clergeon’s murder; the Tale’s ending presents a cathartic response from this congregation, which indicates their understanding of the clergeon’s martyrdom. It also provokes a similar response from the Canterbury pilgrims, which serves to silence them, and to create a paradox that disrupts possible responses to the Tale. Further, Chaucer’s Retraction at the end of the Tales is intended to silence the poet’s critics through the creation of a similar paradox.
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Chaucer and his prioress: feigning silence in the "Prioress's Tale" and "Chaucer's Retraction"Burt, Cameron Bryce 03 September 2010 (has links)
This study provides a new reading of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale and considers its purpose within the context of the Canterbury Tales. I argue that the Tale, as an exemplum, demonstrates the dangers of tale-telling, and exposes the moral discrepancies of the Canterbury tale-telling competition and the pilgrims’ use of stories as verbal assaults against one another. I argue that the Tale condemns the unchristian-like “actions” of the Christians within its frame as they respond to the clergeon’s murder; the Tale’s ending presents a cathartic response from this congregation, which indicates their understanding of the clergeon’s martyrdom. It also provokes a similar response from the Canterbury pilgrims, which serves to silence them, and to create a paradox that disrupts possible responses to the Tale. Further, Chaucer’s Retraction at the end of the Tales is intended to silence the poet’s critics through the creation of a similar paradox.
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The Prioress, The Merchant, and The MillerBriscoe, Mary Lou January 1961 (has links)
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Cultural construction of monsters : The prioress's tale and Song of Roland in analysis and instructionComber, Abigail E. 15 December 2012 (has links)
This project begins by examining current trends in the study of medieval literature, particularly in the area of medieval literature dealing with religious conflict.
Literary review demonstrates that since the late 20th century, critical examination of
medieval literature has been dominated by postcolonial analyses. A dedication to
postcolonial analyses, in effect, has stagnated the field of medieval literary analysis,
particularly in regard to those texts representing religious differences. By focusing
examination on two seminal medieval texts, "The Prioress's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and the anonymous Song of Roland, this dissertation argues that traditional, postcolonially-inspired analyses are ineffective and inconsequential for modern, post-9/11 audiences, particularly high school students. More substantial and authentic readings are revealed through an application of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's monster theory, a hypothesis articulated in his essay "Monster Culture (Seven
Theses)" (1996) which, when coupled with conventionally psychoanalytic concepts of
psychical reality and jouissance, reveals that the cultural creation of monsters is unchanging across time and culture. By illustrating this phenomenon through the Christian creation of Jewish and Muslim monsters, through literary examinations of "The Prioress's Tale" and Song of Roland respectively, this project hints that the same cultural forces feeding monster creation in the Middle Ages are alive in our modern age in the
creation of terrorist monsters. The project culminates by arguing that the most effective
way to teach literature of the Middle Ages to post-9/11 students is to focus on literature
ripe with religious conflict in order to tap into affective connections to be found between
modern students and the people of the Middle Ages. This is a bond best forged through a
discussion-driven approach to literary instruction. / A future for medieval studies -- Monster Jews in the creation of the Christian psychical reality -- The necessity of Saracen monsters in the formation of the Christian self -- The future of medieval studies : teaching The prioress's tale and Song of Roland in contemporary high school classrooms. / Department of English
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