Chaucer's Religion and the Chaucer Religion
- Author / Editor
- Muscatine, Charles.
Chaucer's Religion and the Chaucer Religion
- Published
- Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 249-62.
- Description
- Posits that "different ages or cultures do not so much misread a great text (from a different time or place) as make from it special abstractions, acutely suited to their particular concerns." At midcentury, the twentieth-century reception of Chaucer as realist was overlaid with interest in Chaucer's ambiguity and irony; "the religious, almost puritanical Chaucer" also emerged. This element is new in the Chaucer tradition, and "it is peculiarly difficult to connect to late-twentieth-century sensibility."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer.