Moral and Aesthetic Falls on the Canterbury Way

Author / Editor
Allen, Mark.

Title
Moral and Aesthetic Falls on the Canterbury Way

Published
South Central Review 8 (1991): 36-49.

Description
The imagery of falling reinforces CT's penitential motif at the end of PardT, in NPP, in ManP, and in Ret, affectively leading the reader "through art to morality."

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Pardoner and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale.
Manciple and His Tale.