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

Name: Chaucer's Religious Tales Chaucer's Religious Tales Chaucer's Religious Tales
Brand: D.S.Brewer
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

By Benson, C. David, Benson, C. David

0 - Default Title

Description

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 in women 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. MORSEA.S.G. EDWARDS, CAROLYN COLETTE, ELIZABETH D. KIRK, GEORGE R. KEISER, JANE COWGILL.

Product details

Number of Pages:: 208
Release Date:: 1990-10-01
Publication Date:: 1996-09-19
Publisher:: D.S.Brewer
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0859913023
ISBN13:: 9780859913027
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 482 g
Height:: 16.1 cm
Width:: 24 cm
Thickness:: 1.6 cm

Buy on Amazon

Currently sold out

Add to Wishlist