This lesson contains 17 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
Items in this lesson
Welcome!
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Road Map
Discuss the test
Reading List & Orals
The Miller's Tale
The Reeve's Tale ?
Test on Chaucer on 13 February
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Discuss the test
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Reading list
Please hand in your definitive reading list on or before 16 Feb 2024.
List the titles of your books, their authors, their years of publication and their number of pages. Only after having handed in the list are you allowed to plan your oral exam. E.g.
A Painted House by John Grisham (2001), 387 pages.
The Circle by Dave Eggers (2013), 491 pages.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1926/1974), 188 pages.
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Lesson goal
At the end of this class you:
can describe the character of the Miller
indicate that you understand Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
can link the tale to its context
indicate that you know what a fabliau is
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The Miller
p. 20
timer
1:30
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The Miller
Slide 7 - Mind map
The Miller
negative social stereotype
'all brawn, no brain'
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The Miller's Tale
Battle with the Reeve
Fabliau:
a brief tale
style: simple, straighforward
tense: present
setting: real and familiar
ordinary people
involve incredible degrees of gullibility in the victims and of ingenuity and sexual appetite in the trickster-heroes and -heroines."
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A fabliau
Slide 10 - Mind map
Characters
1. John
2. Allison
3. Nicholas
4. Absolon
Who are they and what is their role in the story?
timer
4:00
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Experts
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Context
Social class
Courtly love
Morality
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Courtly love
A highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman, first developed by the troubadours of Southern France and extensively employed in European literature of the time. The love of the knight for his lady was regarded as an ennobling passion and the relationship was typically unconsummated.
Oxford Reference (2024)
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Lesson goal
At the end of this class you:
can describe the character of the Miller
indicate that you understand Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
