Tropological Woman in Chaucer: Literary Elaborations of an Exegetical Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Heinrichs, Katherine.
Tropological Woman in Chaucer: Literary Elaborations of an Exegetical Tradition
- Published
- English Studies 76 (1995): 209-14.
- Description
- Allusions to the Fall appear in at least half of the tales in CT, but a full tropological reading occurs only in ParsT (10.330), where the allegory explains that "the image of God in man guarantees our ability to rise after a fall."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale.