C.David Benson / Elizabeth Robertson (eds.)

Chaucer's Religious Tales Chaucer's Religious Tales Chaucer's Religious Tales

Herausgeber: Benson, C David; Robertson, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

These thirteen essays by distinguished Chaucerians deal with the most neglected genre of the Canterbury Tales, the religious tales. Although the prose works are also discussed, the primary focus of the volume is on Chaucer's four poems in rhyme royal: the Clerk's Tale, the Man of Law's Tale, the Second Nun's Tale and the Prioress's Tale. Almost all of Chaucer's tales are religious in some sense, but these four works deal specifically and deeply with faith and spiritual transcendence. They appeal to qualities, such as pathos, not now in critical fashion, but at the same time they seem extraordinarily contemporary in their special interest inwomen and feminist issues. The time is appropriate to recognise their importance in Chaucer's canon, for he is a religious poet as surely as he is a poet of comedy and secular love. These essays survey past criticism on the religious tales and offer new approaches. Contributors: C. DAVID BENSON, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, DEREK PEARSALL, BARBARA NOLAN, ROBERT WORTH FRANK, LINDA GEORGIANNA, CHARLOTTE C. MORSE, A.S.G. EDWARDS, CAROLYN COLETTE, ELIZABETHD. KIRK, GEORGE R. KEISER, JANE COWGILL.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780859913027
• ISBN-10: 0859913023
• Artikelnr.: 21966789

Autorenporträt

C. David Benson, Elizabeth Robertson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chaucer's Religious Tales: A Question of Genre Chaucer's Tales
of Transcendence: Rhyme Royal and Christian Prayer in the Canterbury Tales
Pathos in Chaucer's Religious Tales The Protestant Chaucer Critical
Approaches to the Clerk's Tale Critical Approaches to the Man of Law's Tale
Critical Approaches to the Prioress's Tale and the Second Nun's Tale
Nominalism and the Dynamics of the Clerk's Tale: Homo Viator as Woman The
Spiritual Heroism of Chaucer's Custance Poetic Variety in the Man of Law's
and the Clerk's Tales Aspects of Female Piety in the Prioress's Tale The
Second Nun's Tale Patterns of Feminine and Masculine Persuasion in the
Melibee and the Parson's Tale