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From:Medium Aevum (Vol. 85, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCitation OnlyFound in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Comparative Studies in Society and HistoryThe "General Prologue" is often called a picture of its age and, frequently in the next breath, a satire. In English Lit. this usually draws a stern lecture about confusing the distinction between literature and history,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Rocky Mountain Review (Vol. 76, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedElizaveta Strakhov. Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Year's War. Ohio State UP, 2022. 268p. Poetic form as a cultural road map is the basis for Elizaveta Strakhov's extensive research...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The English Review (Vol. 17, Issue 4)The opening lines of 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue' provide a useful starting point for discussing medieval conceptions of authority: Here, 'auctoritee' is easily translated into Modern English as 'authority'; however,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The English Review (Vol. 18, Issue 2)We first meet the Merchant in the General Prologue, where Chaucer introduces his cast of narrators. Here he arouses curiosity about the kind of tales each character will tell, and begins to show how such a party will...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 50, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedContrast, cross-referencing, and the use of leitmotifs (of words and things) are among the most important devices that make Chaucer's General Prologue the masterpiece of complex, vivid, and dynamic portraiture it is...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:George Herbert Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIn George Herbert's poem, "The Quip," "Beautie" (l. 5), "Money" (l. 9), "Glorie" (l. 13), and "Wit and Conversation" (l. 17) taunt the speaker for falling to a station much poorer in wealth and power than the one...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Parergon (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbreu-Ferreira, Darlene, Women, Crime, and Forgiveness in Early Modern Portugal, Farnham, Ashgate, 2015; hardback; pp. 250; 1 map; R.R.P. 70.00 [pounds sterling]; ISBN 9781472442314. Adcock, Rachel, Baptist Women's...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal (Vol. 35)Edward Ferrars alone among Austen's heroes does not dance, Penelope Fritzer observes in Jane Austen and Eighteenth-Century Courtesy Books (36). This observation may not be entirely true, but we as the readers of the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Issue 84) Peer-Reviewed... wet and dry zones of a firefly's chitinous body fuse in a blue spark ... Monica Youn, "Against Imagism" (1) Insects crawl and flutter and alight in and out of the pages of Virginia Woolf's writing: flies,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Early Modern Literary Studies (Vol. 15, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCLAUDIUS: And now my cousin Hamlet and my son-- HAMLET: A little more than kin and less than kind. Hamlet 1.2.64-65 1. In his first encounter with Hamlet, Claudius, the newly-appointed King of Denmark, attempts...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Medium Aevum (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCitation OnlyFound in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Mark Twain Journal (Vol. 61, Issue 1)In the more than 2,000 pages of direct quotation and notes comprising Mark Twain's Autobiography, there is just one comment about Chaucer--that he, Spenser, and Shakespeare would reach larger audiences if their spelling...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Review of English Studies (Vol. 50, Issue 199) Peer-ReviewedCitation OnlyFound in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Review of English Studies (Vol. 50, Issue 199) Peer-ReviewedCitation OnlyFound in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 117, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJohn Lydgate's early fifteenth-century Siege of Thebes is best known for its Prologue's continuation of The Canterbury Tales, in which it depicts its author meeting up with the pilgrims in Canterbury. Critics have...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:South Atlantic Review (Vol. 79, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedJohn Gower's three major works amount to more than 70,000 lines of verse, and together they comprise something of a monument to Gower's productivity and to his ambition as a poet of weight. The Speculum Meditantis, Vox...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Studies in Philology (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGeorge Herbert's "The Forerunners" has not been given sufficient attention as a text remarkably invested in The Temple's poetic project of approaching God through the spatial categories of stillness and motion. The...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article examines Chaucer's use of headless lines and initial inversion in both his short-line verse and his long-line verse, and compares Chaucer's use of these metrical licences with that of earlier...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Medium Aevum (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCitation OnlyFound in Gale Literature Resource Center