Sweetness and Sweat: The Extraordinary Emanations in Fragment Eight of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Cowgill, Bruce Kent.
Sweetness and Sweat: The Extraordinary Emanations in Fragment Eight of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 74 (1995): 343-57.
- Description
- By emphasizing the contrast between excessive sweat in CYT and its absence in SNT, Chaucer indicates the disjunction between carnal and spiritual.
- In addition, Cecilia's "bath of flambes" suggests the purifying water of baptism as opposed to the "watres corosif" of CYT.
- Finally, Chaucer capitalizes on the similitude of "sweten" (to sweat) and "sweten" (to sweeten), wordplay also used in Form Age.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
- Former Age.