Week 3 Flashcards
1
Q
‘Clerk’
A
academic
actual clerk in minor orders (church)
someone in regular or secular orders
learned and professional class in general
2
Q
Estates satire
A
medieval literary genre which gives an analysis of the voices and follies of certain social functions and professions
OF SOCIAL STEREOTYPES NOT INDIVIDUALS
3
Q
non-moral chaucer
A
he doesn’t make any definitive judgements about anyone, he only makes fun
(not immoral or moral, but neutral)
4
Q
Voices of Chaucer
A
Chaucer the Poet (reveals aspect C the pilgrim would not know)
Chaucer the Pilgrim (protagonist, naive and fallible)
the conventional estates satirist (explicit and implicit)
the public (other pilgrims)
5
Q
Two audiences
A
The pilgrims the reader(s)
