When Pardon Is Impossible: Two Talmudic Tales, Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, and Levinas
- Author / Editor
- Astell, Ann W.
When Pardon Is Impossible: Two Talmudic Tales, Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, and Levinas
- 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. 255-80.
- Description
- Two talmudic tales interpreted by Levinas complement PardT in "uncanny ways." While Chaucer explores the impossibility of forgiveness from the perspective of the offender, the talmudic tales explore the impossibility of forgiveness from the perspective of the offended. ParsT informs a reading of PardT just as the sayings of the Rabbis inform the tales of Rab. Astell explores the concept of time in relation to forgiveness and comments on Chaucer's petition for forgiveness in Ret.
- Alternative Title
- Levinas and Medieval Literature: The "Difficult Reading" of English and Rabbinic Texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Parson and His Tale
- Chaucer's Retraction
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations