Reading for the Moral: The Ethics of Exemplarity in Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Mitchell, John Allan.
Reading for the Moral: The Ethics of Exemplarity in Middle English Literature
- Published
- DAI 64) : 155A, 2002.
- Description
- Considers moral casuistry in Gower and CT, arguing that Chaucer and Gower pose for the reader's discovery "practical precepts" that rely on the "rhetoric of exemplarity and the deliberation of readers," rather than relying on hard-and-fast religious or ideological structures.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.