Gene, meet Geoffrey. Oh, you already know each other.

William Ansley · 14 Apr 2001, 00:35 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: (urth) Gene, meet Geoffrey. Oh, you already know each other.
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 00:35:27
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I have just finished listening to a series of taped lectures called=20
_The Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer_*. Somewhere in this=20
series, the lecturer talks about how Chaucer inserts himself as a=20
character, the narrator, in _The Canterbury Tales_. He questions how=20
much we should believe the narrator and says, "Chaucer may be the=20
first unreliable narrator in English literature." This gave me quite=20
a start.

Well, well. Wolfe has an even longer and more distinguished literary=20
legacy than I realized.

William Ansley

*These lectures were given by Professor Seth Lerer and published by=20
The Teaching Company <http://www.teachco.com/>. I thought they were=20
quite good, but I had a humanities deprived education. I don't know=20
how much they would have to offer to someone who had already taken a=20
course on Chaucer.

*More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/

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