The Holy War in the Popular Romances of Prys : Intertextuality in Chaucer's 'The Tale of Sir Thopas'
- Author / Editor
- Markus, Manfred.
The Holy War in the Popular Romances of Prys : Intertextuality in Chaucer's 'The Tale of Sir Thopas'
- Published
- Uwe Boker et al., eds. Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages. Festschrift for Karl Heinz Goller on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004), pp. 95-108.
- Description
- Explores the often-submerged relations between Middle English romances and the Crusades, reading Th as Chaucer's rejection of the "pleasure of indoctrination directed against the pagan enemy." Considers Th "modern, partly even postmodern," in its intertextuality, metafictive qualities, and fragmentary nature.
- Alternative Title
- Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas.