NDLI: Aurelius' Prayer, Franklin's Tale 1031

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Author	Fumo, Jamie C.
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	Although Aurelius' prayer to Apollo for the removal of the rocks in the Franklin's Tale is carefully and extensively developed by Chaucer, it has received insufficient attention from critics, and its awkward, apparently incongruent place in the tale's plot development remains a matter of puzzlement. Addressing the neglect of Aurelius' prayer in the studies of the sources and analogues of the Canterbury Tales by Bryan and Dempster and, more recently, Correale and Hamel, this article consolidates existing criticism on the prayer's textual layers and brings further sources and analogues to light. Chaucer modelled Aurelius' prayer upon an eclectic cluster of literary precedents, from Boccaccio to Boethius to Ovid to Marian lyrics, and was as interested in their interpenetration as in the ironic tensions among them. A recognition of this passage's multivalence enhances our understanding both of the allusive methods and the shifting, exploratory techniques of characterization that define Chaucer's mature style in the Franklin's Tale, rendering it one of his most successful narrative experiments.
Starting Page	623
Ending Page	635
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00282677
Journal	Neophilologus
Volume Number	88
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728668
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2004-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Comparative Linguistics Comparative Literature Historical Linguistics Philology Syntax
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory

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