ENGL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anachronism, Domestic Violence, Libido
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About canterbury tales: satire of members of three medieval estates (common literary genre) Setting: april (improved weather conditions for pilgrimage, highly improbable that groups of different estates would travel together. Narrator: disjunction between author & narrator (not to be confused w/ Chaucer) narrator is less astute than chaucer: describes pilgrims as he sees them & what he learns from them, non-omniscient narrator (non-judgmental) 2: does (cid:374)a(cid:396)(cid:396)ato(cid:396) (cid:374)ot pe(cid:396)(cid:272)ei(cid:448)e thi(cid:374)gs o(cid:396) just does(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t o(cid:374) them, chau(cid:272)e(cid:396) (cid:272)(cid:396)eates u(cid:374)i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)t (cid:374)a(cid:396)(cid:396)ato(cid:396) to a(cid:448)oid a(cid:396)isto(cid:272)(cid:396)a(cid:272)(cid:455)"s blame (& why narrator is non-judgmental, chau(cid:272)e(cid:396)"s (cid:396)et(cid:396)a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) where he disavows his early works (including. Ca(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:271)u(cid:396)(cid:455) tales(cid:895) (cid:271)/(cid:272) he does(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to e(cid:374)(cid:272)ou(cid:396)age si(cid:374)ful (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396: may be better read than he lets on. & made him better in order to impress beloved. Portrait of monk: seems too worldly for occupation, decent man but is in wrong profession, he"s a(cid:374) out(cid:396)ide(cid:396) out of monastery, condemns monk & church, is not pale because he spends time outside.
