Augustinian Neurosis and the Therapy of Criticism.
- Author / Editor
- Cook, James Wyatt.
Augustinian Neurosis and the Therapy of Criticism.
- Published
- Universitas 2.2 (1964): 51-62.
- Description
- Argues that in ClT Chaucer "has successfully humanized the psychological motivation of both Walter and Griselda," de-emphasizing the "supernatural" aspects of the characterizations found in analogous narratives, and depicting his protagonists with motives "consistent with the tenets of the psychological system promulgated by Saint Augustine."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations