Give the Saint Her Due: Hagiographical Values for Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale and Graham Greene's The End of the Affair
- Author / Editor
- Tobin, Ann Lee.
Give the Saint Her Due: Hagiographical Values for Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale and Graham Greene's The End of the Affair
- Published
- Studia Mystica 14:2-3 (1991): 48-60.
- Description
- Chaucer's Saint Cecilia and Greene's Sarah Miles are both perceived as rude, disrespectful, and unbelievable. Their behavior and narratives can be appreciated only in the context of the hagiographical tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.