Knocking the Mary out of the Bones : Chaucer's Ethical Mirrors of Dante
- Author / Editor
- Nolan, Edward Peter.
Knocking the Mary out of the Bones : Chaucer's Ethical Mirrors of Dante
- Published
- Edward Peter Nolan. Now Through a Glass Darkly: Specular Images of Being and Knowing from Virgil to Chaucer (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990) pp. 193-217.
- Description
- Contrasts Dante's clarity and order in the dead world of the "Commedia" with Chaucer's living world of CT, seen "in a glass darkly." Discusses Chaucer's appropriations from Dante: passages, images and ideas, and subtle influences--how the "living pilgrims" of CT reflect "the dead souls" of the "Commedia," especially "the Pardoner reflected in the infernal 'figura' of Francesca da Rimini, the Wife of Bath reflected in purgatorial Statius, and Cecilia reflected in the paradisal Beatrice."
- Alternative Title
- Now Through a Glass Darkly: Specular Images of Being and Knowing from Virgil to Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Canterbury Tales--General.