'Glydeth my song': Penetration and Possession in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Welch, Bronwen.
'Glydeth my song': Penetration and Possession in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale
- Published
- Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. "The Canterbury Tales" Revisited--21st Century Interpretations (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 127-50.
- Description
- Explores anti-Semitism and modern response to PrT in light of recurring concern with humans (the Prioress, Mary, the clergeon, and the Jews) possessed or penetrated by superior beings. Readers are overwhelmed by the desire for "piercing sweetness," even though the anti-Semitism and patriarchalism of PrT render this desire troublesome.
- Alternative Title
- "Canterbury Tales" Revisited-21st Century Interpretations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale