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Clerks and Courtiers: Chaucer, Late Middle English Literature and the State...
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Smyth, Karen April 1, 2004 700+ words ...holds a distinct space between courtly and clerkly identities. In the Man of Law's Tale our...cultures, through using the ambiguous courtly/clerkly space of literature to define his clerkly identity. Johnston's argument continues... |
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Betrayals in the dark continent
Magazine article from: The Spectator Carnell, Simon July 3, 1999 700+ words ...potentially lurid narrative is subtly filtered through the downbeat, fastidious prose and point of view of Hopkins, his pronounced clerkly boringness offset by the intriguing nature of what he reveals about himself, wittingly and unwittingly, beneath a patina... |
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Andrew James Johnston, Clerks and Courtiers: Chaucer, Late Middle English...
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum Bowers, John M. March 22, 2003 700+ words ...Particular attention is paid to Chaucer's self-conscious sense of transition from the courtly minstrel of 'Sir Thopas' and the clerkly adviser of 'Melibee'. Efforts at stipulating the author's cultural identity began early with his friend Scogan's 'Moral... |
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Birth of Rep that nurtured stars; Chris Upton looks at the founding of...
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) Upton, Chris August 22, 1998 700+ words ...included the 24-year-old Jackson and two insurance clerks, Herbert Stowell Milligan and John Drinkwater, who diluted his clerkly duties with the writ ing of plays and poetry. The play they performed was also Twelfth Night, and this no doubt explains... |
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Foden for thought on the trail of the Demutualiser
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman Robert McNeil May 31, 2000 700+ words ...this time his target was Scottish Provident. A film crew was following him around. He is becoming a star, a somebody in the clerkly and generally anonymous world of Edinburgh finance. Woollard is no dullard. He knows what he wants. To get it, however... |
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The Lower Case Jew
Magazine article from: Michigan Quarterly Review Kamenetz, Rodger January 1, 2003 700+ words ...toads humping on a table? And what about that lower case j ? You must have hated us to break the rules of grammar, most bank clerkly of Englishmen. Still I got to admire your style, the classy way you built those lines. The sounds kick back and forth... |
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CIVIC VOICES IN ENGLISH FABLES: THE OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE NUN'S...
Magazine article from: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association Green, Eugene November 1, 2007 700+ words ...topics debated in The Owl and the Nightingale, Alexandra Barratt infers that it appealed early on to audiences familiar with clerkly and courtly life. The poem's "frivolous tone and at times scatological and risque ... subject matter," which are centered... |
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Dynamic Dichotomy: The Poetic `I' in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century French...
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum HUOT, SYLVIA March 22, 2000 700+ words ...sentimental experience and poetic production. This tendency manifested itself, for example, in the frequent opposition of clerkly poet and aristocratic lover and in the use of fictional personae who were explicitly differentiated from the poet. Of the... |
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The Apocalypse is now just fantasy cinema: Podium Taken from a public lecture...
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Ian Christie April 12, 2000 700+ words ...of our time. However true this may be, it runs the risk of seeming banal. From the point of view of Frank Kermode's "clerkly sceptics", with their demand for "constantly changing, constantly more subtle, relationships between a fiction and the... |
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John Nurser, For All Peoples and All Nations: Christian Churches and Human...
Magazine article from: The Ecumenical Review Epps, Dwain July 1, 2005 700+ words ...and global chaos looming on the horizon. Among them was a group of courageous and dedicated US church leaders, both lay and clerkly. It fell to them, on behalf of churches elsewhere in the world who were caught up in the throes of war, to convert the ecumenical... |
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clerk
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...merged with ME. clerc — (O)F. clerc , of the same orig. The sp. clark appears XV. Hence clerkly adj. XVI; modelled on clerkly adv. XV, which is after late L. clēricāliter ; see -LY 1 , -LY 2 . |
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