“从心所欲,不逾矩”——乔叟《坎特伯雷故事集》现实主义新论

At One’s Own Sweet Will,But Within Rules——An Investigation into Chaucer’s Realism in The Canterbury Tales

《坎特伯雷故事集》是中世纪（1066—1485）英国文学中第一部伟大的现实主义作品。其巨大的成功主要取决于它的现实主义。长期以来，由于现实主义文学的主导性和当然性等特点，致使论者对该时期模式化的现实主义关注不够，特别是缺少对具体文本的研究及对其价值、意义的探讨。本文试图分析《坎特伯雷故事集》的现实主义特征，以期更好地认识和把握该时期的现实主义及该作品的价值与意义。

Chaucer＇s masterpiece The Canterbury Tales is regarded as a monument that opened the realistic English literature in the Middle Ages and highly acclaimed for its realism. Yet due to the popularity, dominance and self-evidence of realism Chaucer＇ s intertextuality and stereotyped realism have been slurred or interred with prejudice and taken for granted for a long period, therefore the textual study and the investigation of its significance and values have been correspondingly slighted. This paper tries to probe the realistic traits of The Canterbury Tales for a better understanding of this poetic masterpiece and the realism in the Middle Ages is to be expected.