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1. assets.cambridge.org › 97811084 › 85661CANTERBURY TALES IN THE LITERARY VALUE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY

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   CANTERBURY TALES Literary authors, especially those with other occupations, must come to grips with the question of why they should write at all, when the world urges them to devote their time and energy to other pursuits. They must reach, at the very least, a provisional conclusion regarding

2. www.canterburysociety.org.uk › about-us › projectsPoverty in Canterbury Today: a major report

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   Priority number one is The Elimination of Poverty because it is recognised that Poverty is the biggest cause of suffering world wide. To many people poverty is something that exists in Africa and other far away places but this is not the case. Poverty also exists here in Canterbury.

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   This produced a wealth of information about the different groups known to be at risk of poverty, including pre-school children, school age children, lone parents, people in and out of paid work, people with physical and mental health problems, homeless people and older individuals.

4. users.pfw.edu › flemingd › Wright_GPThe Canterbury Tales - Purdue University Fort Wayne

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   INTRODUCTION. THE ‘tales of Canterbury’, as Chaucer refers to his last and most ambitious poem, describe a fictional journey from the Tabard Inn in Southwark, just outside London, to Canterbury, sixty miles away.

5. www.enotes.com › topics › canterbury-talesThe significance and impact of The Canterbury Tales in ...

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   Jul 3, 2024 · The Canterbury Tales is significant in literature for its pioneering use of the English vernacular, which helped elevate English to a literary language. Its diverse range of characters and...

6. thinkingliterature.com › the-canterbury-tales-as-aThe Canterbury Tales as a social commentary of the age

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   Nov 17, 2021 · In the end, we can say that “The Canterbury Tales” gives us a rather realistic and substantial depiction of the socio-political conditions predominant in the Middle English Period. All the characters that Chaucer has presented in “The Canterbury Tales” represent different sections of society.

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   Is the Canterbury Tales a good book?

   • In the end, we can say that “The Canterbury Tales” gives us a rather realistic and substantial depiction of the socio-political conditions predominant in the Middle English Period. All the characters that Chaucer has presented in “The Canterbury Tales” represent different sections of society.

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   What is the purpose of the Canterbury Tales?

   • The group assembled in the Tabard have a very serious purpose, then, and the Canterbury Tales is, at root, an equally serious exploration of social life (in what good and bad ways people may live together) and human purpose (as a character in the Knight’s Tale puts it, ‘What is this life? What should men wish to have?’).

   The Canterbury Tales

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   What is literary value and social identity in the Canterbury Tales?

   • Literary Value and Social Identity in the “Canterbury Tales” feels something like an “instant classic” in two senses. First, it is a commanding engagement with the greats of Chaucerian interpretation over the last century as well as the field’s several modes of inquiry—close reading, historicism, manuscript studies, and biographical criticism.

   Literary Value and Social Identity in the “Canterbury Tales

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   What are the 'tales of Canterbury'?

   • THE ‘tales of Canterbury’, as Chaucer refers to his last and most ambitious poem, describe a fictional journey from the Tabard Inn in Southwark, just outside London, to Canterbury, sixty miles away.

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8. www.journals.uchicago.edu › doi › 10Literary Value and Social Identity in the “Canterbury Tales

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   Robert Meyer-Lee’s new monograph, Literary Value and Social Identity in the “Canterbury Tales” is a masterclass in literary criticism. It offers not only new interpretations of the Tales but a canny elucidation of the reasoning underlying its own readings.