'Of Goddes Pryvetee nor of His Wyf': Confusion of Orifices in Chaucer's Miller's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Bishop, Louise M.
'Of Goddes Pryvetee nor of His Wyf': Confusion of Orifices in Chaucer's Miller's Tale
- Published
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language 44 : 231-46, 2002.
- Description
- Augustine's glossing of God's corporeality (especially pertaining to Exodus 33) underlies the comments on the limitations of human knowledge in MilP. Confusion about the nature of flesh and about orifices hints at the ultimate ineffability of God's "pryvetee" and of womanhood.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.