'A Little More than Kin and Less than Kind' : The Affinity of Literature and Politics
- Author / Editor
- Whalen, David M.
'A Little More than Kin and Less than Kind' : The Affinity of Literature and Politics
- Published
- Intercollegiate Review 37.1: 22-30, 2001.
- Description
- Discussion of how the political functions of literature are framed by broader ethical and moral concerns, drawing examples from Virgil, Cervantes, Robert Frost, and CT, where the pilgrimage frame indicates that social order--the common good--is dependent on "having an objective that is beyond" the common good.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.