Update on 03/02/2020. As the informed reader will recognise, views presented in this writing have been argued against and as a result become obsolete. Please peruse journals on Chaucer for up-to-date information on the topics presented.
"The General Prologue as a microcosm of the medieval world"
The idea of a pilgrimage as a framework for the tales lends Chaucer the device to represent ensembles of almost all kinds... continue reading
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It was only a few days ago that Faustus was again reminded of a pattern Faustus had noticed in yesteryear's Armorica relating to eliciting language, when Faustus was taking online word association tests (a very lame idea for something online, if you ask him), that of the relation between linguistic competence and associative psychological processes and resulting graphs... continue reading
Eating a humble pie, he sat back down on the sofa and turned the TV on, eating his words, coming to meet half-way with his venting emotions. This man had a habit of meeting trouble half-way, very like Hamlet, who could never put on his mettle until it was too late.
Of a piece was it with his habit too, then, his binging couched on the sofa in front of the TV. To make both the ends--his eating comfortably on the sofa, and adjusting his beeline to the best experience proffered--he...
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The House of the Seven Gables
David Copperfield
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The book being about the morality of acquisition of wealth by means which can be safely termed unscrupulous, unless there's a law that has defined scruples differently in the context to which one would...
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Analyse the text. Mark all words and/or phrases in the text that are capable of having more than one meaning. Compare this with the text in previous post. How different or similar do you find the two? How different? How similar?
Down by the tree that stands in the middle of the forlorn square there stood a man with downy arms that reached down to his knees and as he knelt down moving down the road to English Downs into a... continue reading