Privileged Knowledge: St. Cecilia and the Alchemist in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Longsworth, Robert M.
Privileged Knowledge: St. Cecilia and the Alchemist in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 27 (1992): 87-96.
- Description
- Considers transformation "both as a theme and as a methodological problem." In SNT, faith is more "real" than experience, while in CYT, the "real" is not accessible to the Canon. Chaucer experiments with the relationship between the material and the spiritual and tests the limits of his artistic epistemology.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.