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Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Florida Atlantic University
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2008
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2008
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Geoffrey Chaucer's poem. The Parliament of Fowls, has been acknowledged as an
intricate dream vision of balanced contrasts of ideas, double entendre words, classical
models, and rules of courtly love. Examining the heretofore unexamined voices invented
by Chaucer's narrator, l found that the ancient grammatical term of "middle voice,"
employed in recent linguistic criticism and theory, served to place the narrator inside his
world of reading, dreaming, and writing. As critic and poet. Chaucer offers the reader
new ways to think about ancient literary themes of reading. writing, listening, and telling
stories about love. The reader remains free to enjoy the narrator's voices in Parliament
from the opening line, "The lyf so short, the craft so long to Ierne," through the roundel
and closing.
intricate dream vision of balanced contrasts of ideas, double entendre words, classical
models, and rules of courtly love. Examining the heretofore unexamined voices invented
by Chaucer's narrator, l found that the ancient grammatical term of "middle voice,"
employed in recent linguistic criticism and theory, served to place the narrator inside his
world of reading, dreaming, and writing. As critic and poet. Chaucer offers the reader
new ways to think about ancient literary themes of reading. writing, listening, and telling
stories about love. The reader remains free to enjoy the narrator's voices in Parliament
from the opening line, "The lyf so short, the craft so long to Ierne," through the roundel
and closing.
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80 p.
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FA00000917
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Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008.
FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
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2008
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2008
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2008
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2008
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2008
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FAU
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FA00000917
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Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
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Fleisher, Nancy Kay Gates
Graduate College
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The Circle of Many Voices in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls
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2008
2008
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Fla.
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Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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Boca Raton, Fla.
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The Circle of Many Voices in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls
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The Circle of Many Voices in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls