Roger Ellis

Patterns of Religious Narrative in the Canterbury Tales

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1986. This study asks 'What problems confront the narrator of a religious story?' and 'What solutions to those problems are offered by the religious narratives of the Canterbury Tales?' It explores the relationship between commitment to the authority of a story and narrator's need to assert himself over it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780367357467
• ISBN-10: 0367357461
• Artikelnr.: 69894054

Autorenporträt

Roger Ellis

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction Part 1: The Narrator as Translator 2. The Clerk's
Tale 3. Saint's Tales: The Prioress's Tale 4. Saints Tales: The Second
Nun's Tale 5. Chaucer's Melibee Part 2: Religious Subjects, Literary
Interests and the Sense of a Performance 6. The Man of Law's Tale 7. The
Monk's Tale 8. The Physician's Tale Part 3: Towards a Conclusion 9. The
Pardoner's Tale 10. The Nun's Priest's Tale