The Opacity of Renunciation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Normandin, Shawn D.
The Opacity of Renunciation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Published
- DAI A68.08 (2008): n.p.
- Description
- Examines the motif of renunciation in CT, ranging from renunciation of poetry (MkT, ParsT, and Ret) to renunciation of music and high-flown rhetoric (ManT), renunciation of curiosity (MilT, CYT), and praiseworthy acts of renunciation (ClT, FranT). These renunciations have a variety of effects, both literary and philosophical.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General