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On Integrated Diversity Of Canterbury Tales

Posted on:2009-10-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y P ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242982715Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Chaucer played an important role in the transition period from medieval literature to modern literature. He incorporated French, Italian, and Latin literary traditions into English literature and founded English literature tradition. His poem achievements were mainly reflected in his master piece Canterbury Tales. The long poem with its open attitude and realism is a sprout of modem literature. The main purpose of this thesis is to make clear the unique nature of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It's an undeniable fact that contemporary Italian humanism had great influence on Chaucer. At the same time Chaucer is a feudal squire after all, he always tried to a void the conflicts between his works and court nobles. As a pious Christian, his works showed his meditation over the relation between God and human, between world life and eternal life. The combination of these factors makes Canterbury Tales show integrated diversion.There is no doubt that the Italian humanist ideas of Chaucer's works have had an important impact, but Joe, as a British royal attendants, and try to avoid thinking works in conflict with the court and powerful. "Canterbury Tales" in terms of whether or art on the theme of the case have a distinct variety integrated, such integration is diverse from the 14th century such a coexistence of old and new decisions of the transitional era, and also the poet feudal squire unique life experience and keen insight decision. In the arts, he inherited the traditional style of the Middle Ages, but they are constantly on the change and innovation. Hence, "Canterbury Tales" despite many of the characteristics of medieval literature, but with the reality of the creative spirit is the seeds of modern British literature. "Canterbury Tales" is the theme of both the art that he has the distinctive characteristics of the times and deep scars. Chaucer's in the United Kingdom social, ethnic and language are in a historic transformation efforts under the prerequisite of English language and literature to explore the road of development. Canterbury Tales is a concentrated expression of his achievements, but also on behalf of the British literary development direction.Chaucer is also his times of natural material and cultural realities created by the poet. Poet Chaucer in a crisis-ridden and disturbed, change and the vitality of the era was born and grew up. Given the climate of the times of the poet wrote "Canterbury Tales" This dynamic, full of the flavor of the times works possibility of the growth of small environment poet and personal gifts this possibility into reality works. In short, in which British poet Chaucer although the overall lifestyle also in the middle Ages, but London in the United Kingdom has been a prosperous business, the public culture is a developed country. Italy, it has been produced in the Renaissance. While Chaucer's service is in the court of feudal squire, but he himself was born in the middle-class businessman class, and because of the experience of mission and captured with the European mainland literary and cultural ideas have direct exchanges, and all this so that he can be fully Absorption Europe modern culture nourishment. But Chaucer is, after all, feudal squire, his social status also intentionally or unintentionally, in various ways restricted the poet, it can not be cynical expression of various views on current affairs. Chaucer also devout Christians, his works are also included on the man and his God, the spirit of life and salvation, as well as the people under the premise of the relationship between a series of issues to ponder. These factors are our correct understanding and evaluation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales can not be ignored. Canterbury Tales is not only religious significance, this is a rich content, meaning a wide range of works, realism, humanism, secular tendency to sing the praises of what life is an integral component. Generally speaking, the spirit of exploration and the pursuit of real life these two aspects of the contradictions and conflicts "Canterbury Tales" by the unique artistic vitality. "Chaucer's pilgrims have tried to incorporate the spirit of exploring the story of the framework, but certainly not to their own will and ideas were imposed on the pilgrims. Chaucer's" Canterbury Tales "also reflects the strong tendency of the moral exploration, formed the" Canterbury Tales "journey of pilgrims, is the practical significance, a symbol of the moral exploration of the meaning.Canterbury Tales in the issue of women's issues and gender relations. And the various contradictions and conflicts each other's point of view. Because of the openness of the framework and structure of the dialogue so that the author Chaucer to sex, marriage does not seem to have the view that clear, the end of the conclusions. Perhaps in the eyes of Chaucer, the marriage itself is a sacred and the secular, domination and subordination of the diversity.As Chaucer's a Keats called "negative capability" of this capacity in the "Canterbury Tales" to reflect on, these views of people of different views and different connotation even diametrically opposite story in an open dialogue system, Debates let them free.In the author's ideas did not want to "Canterbury Tales" as a written "on the 10th on the" day as 10 stories, 10 closed 100 of the story, complete the structure. With the theme of tolerance and multi-line, multi-narrative form is also open dialogue pattern, more importantly, such a narrative framework is no longer just assume the story organizations integrate the functions, it is built on a group of people in real life both conflict and dialogue on the actual relationship between the stories of all tightly integrated into the structure of organic whole. In shaping the image of Chaucer's characters from the then popular legend in the literary image of the characters dull, type or limitations of the legend, through the characters appearance, clothing, personalized language describing the shape of living in real life personality figures . Foster based on the theory novelist, it is necessary to attach particular importance to the characters and flat circular figures and the integration of the balance between each other, in order to avoid the Characterization of a single rigid and dull so that the figures portray a diverse entity. Chaucer's view that criticism is the perfect precursor to a job and a unique personality who combined with the exaggerated humor and irony with the details described by the personality of the characters language style.This is characteristic of the art and the "Canterbury Tales" is the theme of adaptation, but also create the reality of the British literary tradition.
Keywords/Search Tags:Integrated
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