Delicacy vs. Truth: Defining Moral Heroism in the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Lawler, Traugott.
Delicacy vs. Truth: Defining Moral Heroism in the Canterbury Tales
- 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. 75-90.
- Description
- Lawler argues that Chaucer privileged simplicity and disapproved of decadence and over-refinement. Lexical examination demonstrates Chaucer's preference for "delicacy," evident most clearly in Griselda of ClT and supported by evidence from KnT and ParsT.
- Alternative Title
- New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry .
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.