Innocence, Suffering, and Sensibility: The Narrative Function of the Pathetic in Chaucer's Tales of the Clerk, Prioress, and Physician
- Author / Editor
- Wildermuth, M. Catherine Turman.
Innocence, Suffering, and Sensibility: The Narrative Function of the Pathetic in Chaucer's Tales of the Clerk, Prioress, and Physician
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1984): 1112A.
- Description
- Medieval literature uses pathos of innocent suffering to relate physical to spiritual. The humanization of Griselda highlights her Christian virtues; the Prioress emphasizes the spiritual; the Physician stimulates audience self-awareness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.