The Old Man and the Earth: Alterity and Otherness of a Medieval Story
- Author / Editor
- Boitani, Piero.
The Old Man and the Earth: Alterity and Otherness of a Medieval Story
- Published
- Piero Boitani. The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1989), pp. 1-19.
- Description
- Comparing the old man in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" and the old man in PardT, Boitani explores the medieval "other" or "discarded image of the universe," which depends on a "hermeneutic openness" that makes the modern reader perceive the "modernity" of medieval literature and specifically the PardT. Treats the quest for death, the psychological character of the old man, and the uncanniness of death.
- Alternative Title
- The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.