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Text-in-Context

Beguin, Christine "Post Plague Social, Economic, and Historical Characteristics of Chaucer's Pilgrims"

In this essay, Christine Beguin analyzes Chaucer's tales in relation to the social, economic, and historical context they reflect.

Shen, Siwei "To Live in a Vermin's World: A Marxist View of Kafka's The Metamorphosis"

Siwei Shen analyzes the connections between Kafka and his Metamorphosis, on the one hand, and Marxist ideas on the oher hand.