Providence and Incest Reconsidered: Chaucer's Poetic Judgment of His Man of Law
- Author / Editor
- Pelen, Marc M.
Providence and Incest Reconsidered: Chaucer's Poetic Judgment of His Man of Law
- Published
- Papers on Language and Literature 30 (1994): 132-56.
- Description
- The narratives of Trevet and Gower turn the story of Constance into a secular moral fable. Similarly, "the Man of Law exposes himself to Chaucer's irony ...: it is this transcendent freedom from the moral content of the legend that the Man of Law has sought to deny, but which Chaucer pursues in an emphatic Ovidian departure from his two immediate models."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.