The Parson's Tale in Current Literary Studies

Author / Editor
Wenzel, Siegfried.

Title
The Parson's Tale in Current Literary Studies

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. 1-10.

Description
Surveys scholarship pertaining to ParsT, describing the recent emphasis on interpretation rather than on philology. Identifies a "perspectivist" approach that regards ParsT as equivalent to the other Tales and a "teleological" approach that sees it as a privileged expression of Chaucer's views.

Alternative Title
Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale.