The Wife of Bath’s tale focuses on feminist discourse. It’s a story of a knight who comes across a young virgin and rapes her. He his sentenced to death but Queen Guinevere pleads for the knight’s life and King Arthur allows her to dish out his sentence. She gives him to a year and a day to discover what woman really want, and if he comes back with the right answer he will keep his life. If not, he will die. The knight rides off and everywhere he goes he gets a different answer. Until he comes across a field of maidens dancing and when he approaches they disappear and turn into an old hag that tells him she will tell him the secret, but he must grant her one wish. He agrees but once his life is spared and he finds out what it is he’s no so keen. In the end he has no choice but to marry and sleep with the old hag who tuns into a beautiful maiden only in his eyes Was Geoffrey Chaucer a feminist? It seems he may have been. In the knight’s tale the lady wishes the same. She demands
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QUESTION 1 ANSWER The Voluspa is one of the most notable poems that is part of the Poetic Edda and contains traces of Norse cosmogony, history, gods, men, and monsters, along with a world origin story and prophecy of an apocalypse understood by North Germanic peoples (Kuiper, 2011). According to Wessen (as cited in Wanner, 2008) the Edda’s purpose was to provide the mythology, stylistics, and metrics of ancient Scandinavia. With features of Icelandic scenery in the poem, Kuiper (2011) states that Voluspa is often thought to have been composed around the year 1000 in Iceland; a time Icelanders believe was the approach of Christianity and the fall of their ancient gods. This is also addressed by Bellows (1923) in where he alludes to the Christian influences pointed out by critics, with one example (from Extract 3 in Voluspa): She sees the earth rising again out of the waters, green once more; an eagle flies over rushing waterfalls, hunting for fish
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Post 1 Weeks 1-3 1. What genres do the following texts belong to, and how do their intended period contexts, purposes, and intended audiences differ? Voluspa is an example of a mythological poem. With its many references to the ‘gods’ defining its genre, “Far-famed Thor”, “the son of Odin”, (Terry, 1990, 1966). Put to writing around the 10 th century it is thought to be much older and originating within the oral traditions. The old Norse text appears in a few sources, The Codex Regius, the Hauksbók manuscripts and the Prose Edda. Not a lot is known about the history of Voluspa, but it clearly details the creation of the world and its ultimate destruction (Voluspa Translations, 2012). Its purpose was probably to remind those listening or reading of their creation story, and inform them about the end of the world, and what the warning signs of that end would be. (Gay, 2015) Volsunga Saga is a legendary saga by genre, we see this because instead of it dealing with mythology an
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Q1. What genres do the following texts belong to, and how do their intended period contexts, purposes, and intended audiences differ? Voluspa, Volsunga Saga, Beowulf, The Hobbi t and Lord of the Rings . A. The following texts seem to be largely divided into ancient and new literature. Classical literature has Voluspa, Volsunga Saga and Beowulf and modern literature has The Hobbi t and Lord of the Rings . To further refine, we can see that Voluspa is a genre of a Mythological poem, as the following references to gods from the poetry illustrate: "Far-famed Thor, the son of Earth, goes north to fight the Snake (l.75-76)". Also, Volsunga Saga is a legendary prose of Iceland's Volsung Family in the 13th Century, and Beowulf is an epic poem with heroic figures: "He thought of his youth on his way to attack the dragon. In the final battle, as the king of the country, Beowulf killed an evil dragon for his people, but at the same time he lost his life." Th
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Q. What genres do the following texts belong to, and how do their intended period contexts, purposes, and intended audiences differ? The Voluspa is an example of a mythological poem due to the reference of gods and the telling of the beginning of worlds and the prophetic telling of the end of the worlds. “The sun turns black, the earth sinks below the sea, no bright star now shines from the heavens; flames leap the length of the World Tree, fire strikes against the very sky.” From Voluspa, Terry, P. (Trans). (1990, 1966). Poems of the Elder Edda. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. The Voluspa was written sometime between the 10th and 12th century in northern europe a very christian but previously Norse area. Although it is likely it was an oral tradition before that. The hobbit and the lord of the rings are both examples of fantasy novels shown in this exchange “"Which king?" said another with a grim voice. "As like as not it is the marauding fire of the
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Modernism What does The Wasteland mean (Lol)? OK, well, let's unpack that: 1. How has it been interpreted? Use citations. 2. What are some of its key features? 3. In what ways has it been influential?? PoMo 1. What common qualities do the "Beats" share? Why were they so-named? 2. On what grounds was Ginsberg's HOWL accused of being obscene, and on what grounds was it defended? 3. In what ways are Beat poetry and rap linked? 4. How was Bob Dylan's song Master of War involved in controversy during the Bush administration? 5. What were the links between black protest music and revolutionary political movements, such as the Black Panthers, in the 1960s and how did things play out then and into the 1970s? 6. Identity some linked themes in rap of the 1980s from the period of the previous questions. 7. What kinda protest song/rap/other media have come out in the last decade? Is there a spirit of protest anymore?
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1. How is the Romantic notion of the Sublime reflected in the texts under consideration in this Romanticism reader? Discuss one or two examples from Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience . 2. How do Blake and Rousseau's ideas align and differ (themes to consider are slavery, religion and education)? 3. See what you can find out anything about what really happened at the Villa Diodati that fateful summer in 1816... 4. How many fictional accounts (film and other narrative media) can you find about that? Provide some useful links, including Youtube clips (hint: for a start try Ken Russel Gothic on Youtube). 5. Discuss the links between the Villa Diodati "brat-pack" and the birth of Gothic as a modern genre with reference to specific texts by the authors who gathered there and subsequent texts (e.g. The Vampire >> Dracula , etc). 7. How does Frankenstein a) reference the Bible, b) foreshadow the Death of God and c) juggle genres as wel