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故事及故事中的故事: 重新思索喬叟<<學者的故事>>

The Story and the Story within the Story: Rethinking Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale"

指導教授 : 葛瑞斐

摘要


評論家將傑弗瑞.喬叟的《學者的故事》視為世俗故事、非世俗故事、宗教模範故事、一個充滿宗教象徵的世俗故事、以及一個象徵性的童話故事。但葛莉謝達的痛苦、華德的殘酷以及《學者的故事》的故事架構似乎透露出它實為一篇描述中世紀男人和女人關係的社會現實故事。 此篇論文正要探索喬叟為何要以「故事中的故事」為故事架構去訴說一個關於耐心的故事。此篇論文將談論到中世紀根深蒂固厭惡女人的思想、中世紀晚期反對厭惡女人的討論、《學者的故事》的真實性、葛莉謝達的德性、喬叟的夢寓言詩、以及佛洛伊德夢的架構和喬叟框架故事的關係。佛洛伊德的「夢中夢」理論正協助我們理解喬叟如何以「故事中的故事」為故事結構,使他能在故事中闡述其個人對中世紀厭惡女人現象的意見,並且不冒犯到當時的權威。

並列摘要


Critics have characterized Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Clerk’s Tale” as a secular tale, a non-secular tale, an exemplary religious tale, a worldly story enriched with religious symbolism, and a symbolic fairy tale. But Griselda’s suffering, Walter’s cruelty and the structure of “The Clerk’s Tale” reveals the tale is more like a realistic tale than a symbolic one which tries to uncover some Medieval truths about the relationship between men and women. This thesis aims to find out Chaucer’s purpose in writing a tale of patience within a frame tale structure. The deep-rooted misogynous thought in the Medieval Ages, the anti-misogynous discussions in the late Middle Ages, “The Clerk’s Tale” as a realistic tale, Griselda’s virtue, Chaucer’s dream visions, and the relationship between Freudian dream visions and Chaucer’s frame tale will be discussed in the thesis. Freud’s concept of “The dream and the dream within a dream” is used to help us understand how Chaucer uses the structure of “a story within a story” as a mask to provide his opinions on the misogynous phenomena in the Medieval society without offending the authorities.

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