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Article: ON POINT.(Opinion/Commentary/Editorial)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2004
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STILL OFF BASE
Deposition or no deposition, nasty lawyer or no, we're still scratching our heads over CU President Betsy Hoffman's insistence that Chaucer's The Miller's Tale is the place to look for a context in which the C-word is used as a "term of endear- ment." This is what the medievalist-by-training told the Durango Herald Tuesday.
However, two scholars of medieval English literature we talked to, including Thomas Ross, author of the acclaimed Chaucer's Bawdy, say Hoffman is mistaken. The Miller's Tale is essentially a dirty joke that makes fun of arrogant university students, libidinous young wives, foolish old husbands, and courtly love. In ...