Ricardian Poetics and Late Medieval Cultural Pluriformity: The Significance of Pathos in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Sturgin, Michael.
Ricardian Poetics and Late Medieval Cultural Pluriformity: The Significance of Pathos in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 15 (1981): 155-67.
- Description
- The pathetic tales must been seen in connection with the Ricardian emphasis on emotionalism and the commonality of Christ's human nature and man's. The aim of the pathetic voice is not to make any sweeping statement of human experience but to provide one possible response to it.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.