The Curious Eye and the Alternative Endings of 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Andrew.
The Curious Eye and the Alternative Endings of 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Paul Budra and Betty A. Schellenberg, eds. Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel. (Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1998), pp. 34-52.
- Description
- Reads the "Tale of Beryn" and Lydgate's "Seige of Thebes" as acts of resistance to Chaucer's dissolution of his fiction in the meditation that is ParsT. These continuations of CT seek to keep alive the drama of CT through visualization, a form of "curiositas" that shares features with the visualization necessary for successful meditation.
- Contributor
- Budra, Paul,
- Schellenberg, Betty A.,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Parson and His Tale.