Levinas, Allegory, and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Yager, Susan.
Levinas, Allegory, and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Published
- Ann W. Astell and J. A. Jackson, eds. Levinas and Medieval Literature: The "Difficult Reading" of English and Rabbinic Texts (Pittsburgh, Penn.: Duquesne University Press, 2009), pp. 35-56.
- Description
- Examines parallels between Levinas's writing and medieval allegory. Yager reads ClT in a Levinasian mode to generate an open-ended reading or "an exercise in ifs." ClT can be read as an ethical allegory; Chaucer, as an ethical allegorist. Yager discusses similarities between Griselda and the ethical other.
- Alternative Title
- Levinas and Medieval Literature: The "Difficult Reading" of English and Rabbinic Texts..
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.