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Chaucer's Use of Details as a Story-Telling Strategy and Style
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This 6 page report discusses the style Chaucer uses through his careful use of detail. Referring to "The Knight's Tale" and "The Wife of Bath" in The Canterbury Tales, this report illustrates how he uses detail to enhance and balance or to counterbalance the effect of the story being told, as well as the attitudes of the particular character telling the story. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: BWgeoff.rtf

Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Feminist Discourse
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A 7 page paper which discusses whether Chaucer's "Wife of Bath" helps with feminist discourse, especially in regards to official church dogma of the time period. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAchbath.rtf

Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale” and Courtly Love
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This 14 page report with a sentence outline of its points discusses “The Knight’s Tale” of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” and the subject of courtly love. Chaucer’s nderstanding of society as a divinely ordained hierarchy is often a stumbling point for the reader in understanding the deeper connections and interpretations of the characters who populate Chaucer’s work. However, in “The Knight’s Tale,” the reader understands that chivalry and courtly love are the ultimate experiences to which a nobleman can (or should) aspire. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: BWchaucr.wps

Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale -- The Merits of a Donaldsonian Interpretation
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This 5 page report discusses two of the preeminent interpreters and critics of Geoffrey Chaucer, Durant Waite Robertson, Jr. and E. Talbot Donaldson and their attitudes regarding Chaucer’s works. Robertson saw Chaucer’s work as allegory reflecting Christian beliefs while Donaldson interpreted him as a comic writer with a remarkable eye for detail and skill in language. “The Miller’s Tale” is considered as an example that proves the “Donaldsonian” point of view. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWchaudr.rtf

Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath”
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A 7 page paper which examines some of the feminist perspectives that can be found in Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath” from “Canterbury Tales.” Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
Filename: RAbth1.rtf

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: The Miller’s Tale
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A 4 page paper which discusses how well Chaucer dealt with the carpenter, the student, and the absolom in the Miller’s Tale and prologue. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAchcml.rtf

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; The Guildsmen, The Cook, The Shipman and The Doctor
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This 5 page paper looks at the characters of the guildsmen, the Cook, the shipman and the doctor in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and how they are portrayed as negative characters. The bibliography cites 1 source.
Filename: TEchauc1.rtf

Chaucer’s Merchant and Physician
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A 5 page paper which examines Chaucer’s Merchant and Physician in “Canterbury Tales.” Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
Filename: RAchcmer.rtf

CHAUCER’S PILGRIMS IN DANTE’S INFERNO
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This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Dante's Inferno to those of Chaucer's. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MBchinfrno.rtf

CHAUCER’S PRIORESS TALE
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This 5 page paper examines Chaucer's Prioress' Tale from the Canterbury Tales. In particular her character is analyzed for inconsistencies and are supported by examples from the text. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MBpriors.rtf