Some Discarnational Impulses in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Curtis, Penelope.
Some Discarnational Impulses in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Gregory Kratzmann and James Simpson, eds. Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1986), pp. 128-45.
- Description
- An "earthscape of renewals and pilgrimages," CT is chiefly incarnational and pluralistic, with four exceptions. As pious tales with separate value structures and terms of reference differing from the GP principle of "purifying, abstracting and disheriting," MLT, CLT, SNT, and PrT are discarnational. MLT and ClT emphasize the "religious content of the female stereotype"; SNT and PrT emphasize "body-soul diversion."
- Alternative Title
- Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.