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Lais: The Franklin's Tale, Sir Launfal, Emare, Breton Lai


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Chapters: The Franklin's Tale, Sir Launfal, Emare, Breton Lai. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "The Franklin's Tale" (Middle English: ) is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It focuses on issues of providence, truth, generosity and gentillesse in human relationships. William Blake. Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims c 1820-23.A franklin was a medieval landowner, and this pilgrim's words when interrupting the Squire are often seen as displaying his social-climbing tendencies. After stopping the Squire's seemingly endless tale he obsequiously praises him and complains that his own son is not so learned until the Host tells him to tell his own tale, which he does only after warning his audience that he is a "burel" (simple) man. This is an example of the rhetorical device of diminutio, and other such devices are employed throughout the tale. The story opens by recounting how in pagan times a young knight (Arveragus) and a young woman (Dorigen) fall in love. In this the tale differs from most extant stories of courtly love, as the lady is wooed and won by her knight at the very beginning. Unusually for an early English text, the two lovers decide that their marriage should be one of equal status, although they agree that, in public, Arveragus should make decisions so as not to draw suspicion. The idea of women having equality with men was unheard of at the time, and would have been socially unacceptable; this is why they choose to conceal it. Arveragus then travels to Britain to seek honour and fame, a common thing for knights to do at that time. He leaves Dorigen alone in France near the coastal town of Pedmark (today Penmarc'h) the province of Armorik (or Brittany as it is now known). les Tas de Pais off the Pointe de Penhir in Camaret B...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=40419


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156846285
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: The Franklin's Tale, Sir Launfal, Emare, Breton Lai
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1156846285
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr


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