Pilgrimage Gone Awry: The Theatrics of the Chaucerian Unconscious

Author / Editor
McLaughlin, Becky Renee.

Title
Pilgrimage Gone Awry: The Theatrics of the Chaucerian Unconscious

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 2493A.

Description
CT develops "horror and abjection" through struggles for mastery of many kinds, leaving its characters suspended between the Tabard and Canterbury amid images of mutilation and death. Chaucer critics may also be seen as pilgrims struggling among themselves for mastery.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.