Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Shimomura, Sachi.
Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Physical Description
- ix, 198 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Description
- Set against the eschatology of the Last Judgment, medieval narratives prompt their audiences to employ complex - often deferred - criteria for interpretation or evaluation. Shimomura considers how audience judgment is engaged and complicated in "Christ III," several homilies and romances, WBPT, and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," focusing on how eschatological tradition underlies and challenges the desire for closure and evaluation in medieval stories. Chapter 3 (pp. 85-125) assesses how the "discontinuous selves" represented in WBP anticipate the dynamics of transformation in WBT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.