523 Geoffrey Chaucer (with Marion Turner) | A New Podcast About the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike (with AFSCME President Lee Saunders)
The History of Literature
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Chaucer: The Service
I wonder about the extent to which we've done Chaucer the service by focusing on the body and the naughty. But a lot of what I'm interested in reading of Chaucer is the stuff that you described after that, the other things that he wrote about. For me, it is kind of a little bit juvenile to sort of say, well, I'm going to read a poet and going to be all about being transgressive"
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