Courtly Hagiomythography and Chaucer's Tripartite Genre Critique in the Legend of Good Women
- Author / Editor
- Canitz, A. E. Christa.
Courtly Hagiomythography and Chaucer's Tripartite Genre Critique in the Legend of Good Women
- Published
- A. E. Christa Canitz and Gernot R. Wieland, eds. From Arabye to Engelond: Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on His 75th Birthday (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999), pp. 131-53.
- Description
- Argues that LGW critiques the rigidity of highly conventionalized literary genres for failing to represent human experience adequately. Chaucer's conflation of hagiography, courtly romance, and epic myth reveals the "flaws" in each genre, especially the insistence on a single pattern.
- Alternative Title
- From Arabye to Engelond: Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on His 75th Birthday.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.