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Fellow Travelers: On Reimagining Chaucer in Post-Soviet Ukraine

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Fellow Travelers: On Reimagining Chaucer in Post-Soviet Ukraine
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I’m not a medievalist but fell in love with one because he seduced me by quoting lines—in Middle English—from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
And of course, in my besotted state of lust, I studied that book in earnest. However, as it turned out, I discovered I loved the Canterbury Tales far more than the medievalist guy. After we broke up, I still read and re-read Chaucer’s book mostly because I was enamored by the story structure: a group of pilgrims traveling together and sharing stories—and comme

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