Parents and Children in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Mann, Jill.
Parents and Children in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Literature in Fourteenth-Century England (Tubingen: Gunter Narr; Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1983), pp. 165-83.
- Description
- Demonstrates that "the parent-child relation is one of the central motifs" of CT. Focusses on MkT, MLT, PrT, PhyT, and ClT to argue that Chaucer explores not only the power relations between parent and child but those parallel relations as well between human beings and the relations of the human with the supernatural. Chaucer depicts life as a matter of sufferance.
- Alternative Title
- Literature in Fourteenth-Century England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Physician and His Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Canterbury Tales--General.