Ideology, Antisemitism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Besserman, Lawrence L.
Ideology, Antisemitism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 36: 48-72, 2001.
- Description
- Throughout the decades, Chaucer critics have argued their own biases in interpreting Chaucer's ideology--seeing Chaucer as a "Christian poet"; as a "poet first and foremost"; as an "atheist"; as a writer who was "politically incorrect." Eschewing close textual reading, modern theoretical critics provide "flawed and dangerous assumptions," often throwing critical scholarship "way off its true course."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.