Chaucer's 'New Men' and the Good of Literature in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Middleton, Anne.
Chaucer's 'New Men' and the Good of Literature in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Edward W. Said, ed. Literature and Society. Selected Papers from the English Institute. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1980), pp. 15-56.
- Description
- Chaucer's pilgrims agree that "the pleasure and the use of literature are one thing," that the utility of literature lies not only in the kernel of its theme but in the felicities of its style and the pleasure of its audience as well. In this view, Chaucer anticipates the "new men" of the Renaissance. "Enditing" was to Chaucer a courtly, affirmative art, not a transcendental one.
- Contributor
- Said, Edward W.,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Literature and Society.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.