Chaucer's Canterbury Poetics: Irony, Allegory, and the 'Prologue' to 'The Manciple's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Ginsberg, Warren.
Chaucer's Canterbury Poetics: Irony, Allegory, and the 'Prologue' to 'The Manciple's Tale'
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 18 (1996): 55-89.
- Description
- Irony and allegory displace meaning in opposite directions, and in ManP they conspire to simultaneous affirmation and negation. Like Christ's parable of the wicked servant (Luke 16:1-9), the Manciple's verbal assault on the Cook indicates the way to salvation in a condemnatory gesture. Like Ret in canceling and affirming poetry, ManP encourages silence and restates the beginning of the pilgrimage, articulating a poetics of analogy that runs throughout CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Retraction.