Framing Fiction with Death: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Plague
- Author / Editor
- Lewis, Celia.
Framing Fiction with Death: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Plague
- Published
- Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, eds. New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry (Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 139-64.
- Description
- Late-medieval preoccupation with mortality defies the solace of fiction. PhyT and PardT offer no hope of physical or spiritual life, and ParsT kills storytelling.
- Alternative Title
- New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.