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The Canterbury Tales Critical Essay #5
In the following essay, Gallacher applies Maurice Merleau-Ponty's ideas on perception to "the much-discussed portrait of Alison and to the perceptual responses of John, Absolon, and Nicholas" in "The Miller's Tale."
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"Miller's Tale," if not the fabliau as a genre, presents us with a
pattern of mistakes in perception, a sharp, dramatic contrast between the real
and the imaginary, which confirms basic assumptions about our world at the
same time that it raises important questions. Although our sense of the real
begins with what is both actual and possible in perception, it is easy to
confuse the two, or to underestimate one or the other. The relevant truism, of
course, is that we usually think we know what's there, but...
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