Desire, Violence and the Passion of Fragment VII of The Canterbury Tales : A Girardian Reading

Author / Editor
Gruenler, Curtis.

Title
Desire, Violence and the Passion of Fragment VII of The Canterbury Tales : A Girardian Reading

Published
Renascence 52: 35-56, 1999.

Description
Fragment 7 of CT is unified by its focus on the problem of human violence and the "potential of literature to perpetrate or remedy this problem." In ShT, PrT, and Th, Chaucer shows their respective genres' "mythologies" of violence. Mel counsels self-scrutiny as an antidote to violence, MkT suggests repentance, and NPT offers laughter.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Shipman and His Tale.
Prioress and Her Tale.
Tale of Sir Thopas.
Tale of Melibee.
Monk and His Tale.
Nun's Priest and His Tale.