Liminality in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Pison, Thomas.
Liminality in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Genre 10 (1977): 157-71.
- Description
- Travelling levels status distinctions and puts the pilgrims at the threshold stage in a rite of passage. Their "ritual elder" is the Host; their enterprise, a restructuring of social conventions: love, rank, "gentillesse", vulgarity, and money. Chaucer (Mel) and the Parson "reaggregate" the society.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.