The Squire's Tale
The Squire's Tale
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乡绅的故事
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1990
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通讯作者：
Dorothy Bethurum
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Geoffrey d. . Chaucer;Dorothy Bethurum
在《乡绅的故事》所提出的学术问题中，《乡绅的故事》是《坎特伯雷故事集》中最重要的一部。不完整，莫名其妙地停了下来，难道真的演变成了乱伦故事？在乔叟的所有作品中，这个故事在评论家接受度上经历了最显著的转变。这个东方奇迹的故事，以其强大的魔法基础，激发了乔叟同时代人的钦佩，激发了斯宾塞的模仿性思考和米尔顿的著名愿望，即召唤这位老诗人来完成他的任务。它保留了十八世纪和十九世纪的大部分哥特式魅力，被列为乔叟最好的作品。在20世纪后半叶，人们从一些具有挑衅性的角度看待这一问题。这是对漫长的东方浪漫史的模仿吗？这是对一个时代已经过去的贵族的价值观的讽刺吗？这是乔叟的一个修辞玩笑，将年轻的乡绅的性格扩展到与他的父亲骑士的认真而有点天真的竞争中？当代学术界的关注既揭示了作品本身，也揭示了当时的批评情绪。《乡绅的故事》本身的优点迫使我们把它作为乔叟广泛的、有时是不可思议的天才的一个例子来关注。它为我们提供了一个异国情调的文学类型没有其他代表的故事。它的回响，在其讨论的“温柔”与其他这样的讨论乔叟的诗歌;它表明，在其使用的爱的愿景和投诉，实验的方式，乔叟处理公约的法国诗歌。也许最吸引人的是乔叟的思想的范围揭示了他的时间的科学的随意使用：其知识的气象学，光学，玻璃和金属加工，占星术和天文学。这个故事提供了另一个例子，乔叟的天才在工作中，对我们说话的声音，是一次暗示，挑衅，和神秘一如既往。
Part TwelveIn the list of scholarly problems it presents, The Squire's Tale ranks among the highest in The Canterbury Tales. Being incomplete and coming to a halt on a baffling note-was it in fact evolving into a tale of incest?-the tale has undergone the most remarkable shift in critic acceptance of any of Chaucer's works. This tale of oriental wonder, with its strong base in magic, excited the admiration of Chaucer's contemporaries and inspired Spenser's imitative speculation and Milton's famous desire that the old poet be summoned up to finish his task. It retained for the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries its Gothic fascination, being ranked with the very best of Chaucer's work. In the second half of the twentieth century, it has been seen from a number of provocative perspectives. Is it a parody of the long Eastern romance? Is it a satire on the values of an aristocracy whose time is past? Is it a rhetorical joke on Chaucer's part, extending the character of the young Squire into an earnest and somewhat naive competition with his father, the Knight? The concerns of contemporary scholarship reveal as much about the critical temper of the time as about the work itself. On its own merits The Squire's Tale compels our attention as an example of Chaucer's wide-ranging and sometimes inscrutable genius. It provides us with an exotic literary type not otherwise represented in the Tales. It reverberates, in its discussion of 'gentilesse' with other such discussions in Chaucer's poetry; it demonstrates, in its use of the love-vision and the complaint, the experimental ways in which Chaucer handles the conventions of French poetry. Perhaps most fascinating is the range of Chaucer's mind revealed by the casual uses of the science of his time: its knowledge of meteorology, optics, glass and metal work, astrology, and astronomy. The tale offers yet one more example of Chaucer's genius at work, speaking to us in a voice that is at once suggestive, provocative, and mystifying as always.