Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2001.
- Physical Description
- [xiv], 184 pp.
- Description
- Applying Habermas's notion of discourse ethics, Schildgen focuses on stories in CT that are "set outside a Christian-dominated world." Individual chapters include discussions of KnT and SqT, MLT, WBT and FranT, PrT and MkT, and SNT. Chaucer's inclusion of these stories demonstrates his "expansive narrative interest in the intellectual and cultural worlds outside Christianity" (2). They are crucial to presenting not a single, totalizing worldview but rather an "environment" for the exchange and ultimately unresolved debate of alternative views and value systems (125).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Squire and His Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Monk and His Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.