Chaucer's Chain of Love
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Paul Beekman.
Chaucer's Chain of Love
- Published
- Madison and Teaneck, N.J.:
- London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ;
- Associated University Presses, 1996.
- Physical Description
- 215 pp.
- Description
- Reads CT as Chaucer's effort to "see, speak and write" into fiction the bond of love that is to him an "ontological fact of creation." The road to Canterbury is a metaphor of salvation; the pilgrims and their "Tales" are links in the spiritual chain of love.
- Recurring concern with language both reflects Chaucer's anxieties about human ability to express the truth of love and celebrates human language and art as "a distant and riotous imitation of God's order." Taylor also considers the "chain of love" as metaphor and metonym in PF, TC, and LGW.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Legend of Good women.