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Anglo -Saxon
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Anglo
Saxons and Jutes ca. 450 |
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Anglo-Norman
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Norman Conquest
1066 |
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Middle English
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14th-15th cent
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English is a ____ language.
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germanic
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Bede's and Ecclesiastical history of the Eng. People(Caedmon's Hym);the Dream of the road; Beowulf;Wanderer;Wife's Lament are examples of ...
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anglo saxon literature
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geoffry of monomuth; layamon's brut; legend's of arthur examples of ...
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anglo norman literature
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sir gawain; chaucer;gower;langland;norwich;kempe;malory examples of:
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middle eng lit and authors
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mystery and morality plays orginated in the ____ time period
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middle english
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wyrd
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fate
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kenning
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compound descriptive phrase
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caesura
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pause/break in the middle of a line
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iambic pentameter
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stressed verse
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-band of men connected to heroic/external code
-man has lost his lord and can't live w/o him because w/o him the code is lost |
The Wanderer
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husband was a part of the code and is now gone
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the Wife's Lament
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whale-road = sea
ring-giver= king/lord word-hoard=fancy language corpse-maker= killer, murder |
Examples of kennings
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elegiac
(the wanderer's tone) |
lost, regretful, sorrow at death
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de contemptus mundi
(5 variant meanings) |
-of contempt for the world
-comes out of the X-ian perspective -willingness to slight this world when compared to heaven -reason to lament things of this world -don't place stock in the here |
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Theme of both wanderer and wife's lament
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wretchedness of exile
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Beowulf
(written/composed) |
early 700s
set in 450-500 |
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beowulf
(style and subject) |
heroic
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comiatus
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the crucial relationship between a warrior and a lord
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wergild
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man-price
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boats and praise were...
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formalities built into the heroic code
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Beowulf
(motif) |
revenge
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Wiglaf
(4) |
-carries on the heroic code
-his intold story were are anticipating -avenges and aides Beowulf - carries the story beyond the story |
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the death of Beowulf is...
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-ritualistic
-ends w/ the implication that Wiglaf will continue the history |
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Sir Gawain
Romance as a genre is... |
idealistic not realistic
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Sir Gawain
notion of a quest is.. |
a romantic relationship not important to story
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Courtly Love...
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-an ideal
-winning favor of a lady who is unattianable -erotic not sexual |
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Chilvary...
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-cultural and literary tradition
-realistic |
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Pentangle
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-represents a charm of protection (physical and mental)
-represents wounds of X |
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Sir Gawain
the hunts |
-increasingly harder
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fox
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-foreshaowing
-trickery and disception |
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green
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earth/wildness
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Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense
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moto of the order of the garder
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misogynistic
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blame it on the woman
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stratified
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society very defined
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dream vision
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genre, gives free reign to writers
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poetry is read
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aloud
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The Book of the Duchess
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dream vision
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The House of Fame
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dream vision
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The Parliament of Fowls
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dream vision
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Troilus and Criseyde
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long love poem
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Legend of the Good Women
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dream visi)on
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The Canterbury Tales
(year) |
c. 1386
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CT
projected #of tales # completed |
-120 projected
-22 finished + 2 fragments |
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CT
number of manuscripts from time period |
more than 80
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CT
genre? |
estates (status, class) satire
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CT
Tone? |
-Narrative
-purposeful, judgemental |
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CT:GenPro
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frame w/n a frame
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knight
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idealized
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clerk
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idealized
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parson
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idealized
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plowman
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idealized
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squire
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neutral
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yeoman
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neutral
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haberdasher, carpenter, weaver, dyer, tapestry maker
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neutral
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nun
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gentle satire
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merchant
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gentle satire
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sergent of the law
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gentle satire
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franklin
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gentle satire
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cook
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gentle satire
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doctor of physic
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gentle satire
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wife of bath
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gentle satire
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manciple
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gentle satire
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reeve
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gentle satire
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monk
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harsh satire
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friar
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harsh satire
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shipman
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harsh satire
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miller
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harsh satire
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summoner/pardoner
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harsh satire
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genres found w/n CT
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romance
fabilaux satire(anti-fem) saint's lives animal fables religious allegories sermon |
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fabliaux
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comic story that contains some boughtness
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WoB:Tale is a
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Brenton lay(lai)
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WoB:Tale
genre? |
romance
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WoB: prologue and tale is a response to...
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anti-feminist writings
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