The Parson's Tale and Its Generic Affiliations
- Author / Editor
- Newhauser, Richard.
The Parson's Tale and Its Generic Affiliations
- 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. 45-76.
- Description
- Assesses ParsT in its genre of vernacular penitential manual, demonstrating that in structure and detail it is closely affiliated with Heinrich von Langenstein's "Erchantnuzz der Sund." Similarities between these two contemporary works raise questions about the literariness of ParsT and its role as a conclusion to CT.
- Reprinted in Newhauser's Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007).
- Alternative Title
- Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale .
- Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.