Del 41 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Closure in the Canterbury Tales

The Role of The Parson's Tale

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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For all its spiritual cheerfulness and obvious importance as a tale to conclude tales, a last word from a notable maker of words, The Parson's Tale seems to have inspired sentence and solaas in remarkably few critics. This volume rejects the tradition that assumes the tale to be of questionable literary value. The studies included span the range of Parson's Tale criticism from the textual, to the philological, to the hermeneutical. What they share is the assumption that if one is to understand the role of The Parson's Tale, one must begin by accepting the language and method by which Chaucer fashioned it. This rethinking of traditional scholarship on this crucial aspect of The Canterbury Tales will be of great interest to Chaucer scholars and students of medieval literature.

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Utgivningsdatum2000-01-07
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt466 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Antal sidor289
FörlagMedieval Institute Publications
ISBN9781580440127

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductions; David Raybin and Linda Harte HolleyThe Parson's Tale in Current Literary Studies; Siegfried WenzelManye been the weyes: The Flower, Its Roots, and the Ending of the Canterbury Tales; David RaybinThe Parson's Tale and Its Generic Affiliations; Richard NewhauserProlegomenon to a Print History of the Parson's Tale: The Novelty and Legacy of Wynkyn de Worde's Text; Daniel J. RansomThe Words of the Parson's Vertuous Sentence; Peggy KnappChaucer's Parson and the Idiosyncracies of Fiction; Judith FersterDropping the Personae and Reforming the Self: The Parson's Tale and the End of the Canterbury Tales; Gregory RoperThe goode wey: Ending and Not-Ending in the Parson's Tale; Charlotte GrossEpilogue: Closing the Eschatological Account; Linda Tarte Holley; Bibliography of Scholarship Treating the Parson's Tale; David RaybinContributorsIndex