Chaucer's Religiosity and a Twentieth-Century Analogue, Muriel Spark

Author / Editor
Richmond, Velma Bourgeois.

Title
Chaucer's Religiosity and a Twentieth-Century Analogue, Muriel Spark

Published
Modern Language Quarterly 51 (1990): 427-45.

Description
Modern discussions of Chaucer and Spark deemphasize the clear religious strains in their fictions. The grotesque, the absurd, and the aberrant are present in both as worldly flaws requiring divine transcendence.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.