Chaucer's Religious Tales

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Chaucer Studies

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A collection of 13 essays by experts in the field of medieval literature dealing with the most neglected genre of the "Canterbury Tales": the religious tales. The prose works are also discussed, but 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", and the "Second Nun's Tale", and the "Prioress's Tale". Most 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, yet at the same time they seem extraordinarily comtemporary in their special interest in women and feminist issues. The neglect of Chaucer's religious tales reflects a faded 19th-century humanism, but it is appropriate to recognize their importance in his canon, for Chaucer is a religious poet as much as he is a poet of comedy and secular love. These essays survey past criticism on the religious tales and offer new approaches. Without condescension or pietism, they recognize the artistic and thematic power of the poems under consideration.

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November 1st, 1990

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Professional & Vocational

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Edited by C. David Benson
Edited by Elizabeth Robertson

Pages

204

Series

Chaucer Studies

Dimensions

167x246x17

ISBN-13

9780859913027

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5272972

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