Word: chaucerian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final club; a group of premeds were sitting in a courtyard studying for their MCATs, while a pair a rowers walked toward the boat house for an afternoon practice. Lampoon to the left of me, Hillel to the right: it's rich panorama of life in a cheesy, Chaucerian sort...
April de la Rosa Genovese: A Chaucerian Dedication...
...stories in Strange Pilgrims present twelve pilgrims, twelve wanderers lost in a foreign land. What makes this deceptively simple Chaucerian structure striking and relevant is that the travelers happen to be Latin American and the foreign land happens to be Europe. Although Latin America and Europe have had a relationship not unlike that of the United States and England, the former interaction is vastly more complicated and tortuous. The U.S. need no longer have an inferiority complex with respect to Europe, such as was depicted in Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad or in just about all of Edith Wharton...