Lumiansky's Paradox : Ethics, Aesthetics and Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Wilsbacher, Greg.
Lumiansky's Paradox : Ethics, Aesthetics and Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale'
- Published
- College Literature 32 (2005): 1-28.
- Description
- The linked anti-Semitism and poetic virtuosity of PrT confront medievalists with a paradox, in which accurately representing the past and combating bigotry in the present are pitted against each other. Resolving this paradox by ignoring aesthetics in favor of historicism is not a solution; engaging it illuminates the possibility of an ethical aesthetics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.