Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 16 AIL 1527 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Teller and Tale
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The idea
Unit five's separation of speaker from author applies across a whole book here. A tale's crudeness or piety belongs to its pilgrim, not to Chaucer. An exam passage from the Tales is spoken by somebody, and identifying who changes what the passage means.
In practice
The tale belongs to its pilgrim.
Where people slip
Unit five's rule, at book scale.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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