Empathy and Enmity in the Prioress's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Spector, Stephen.
Empathy and Enmity in the Prioress's Tale
- Published
- Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector, eds. The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 211-28, 289-300 (notes).
- Description
- Explores the "joining of contradictions in irony" in the GP portrait of the Prioress and the "joining of contraries" in the "sublime paradox" in the allusion to the Incarnation in PrT. A further contradiction is "that the Prioress, whose faith and emotion seem so shallow and misplaced" in GP, "should utter so ardent a prayer at all." Spector deconstructs "the moral dichotomy in her depiction of Christian-Jewish relations" to challenge the notion of Chaucer's anti-Semitism..
- Alternative Title
- Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.