Transcendent Metaphor or Banal Reality: Three Chaucerian Dilemmas
- Author / Editor
- Condren, Edward I.
Transcendent Metaphor or Banal Reality: Three Chaucerian Dilemmas
- Published
- Papers on Language and Literature 21 (1985): 233-57.
- Description
- Chaucer celebrates "man's simultaneous transcendence and absurdity": in MilT, Nicholas's psaltery playing may be onanistic; in MerT, January's praise of Damian as "discreet," "secree," and "manly" may suggest his willingness to allow May sexual access to Damian; in TC, Troilus's swoon suggests premature climax.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.