The Opacity of Renunciation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Normandin, Shawn D.

Title
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