Chaucer's Parson and the 'Idiosyncracies of Fiction'
- Author / Editor
- Ferster, Judith.
Chaucer's Parson and the 'Idiosyncracies of Fiction'
- Published
- David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley, eds. Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2000), pp. 115-50.
- Description
- Argues that ParsT fits its teller. Seen in relation to its sources, the Tale reflects a particular and individualized kind of spirituality--a spirituality averse to physical pleasure, critical of inappropriate taxation, and ambivalent about pilgrimage.
- Alternative Title
- Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.