Finger of God: Religious Thought and Themes in Literature from Chaucer to Kafka

Author / Editor
Schmerling, Hilda L.

Title
Finger of God: Religious Thought and Themes in Literature from Chaucer to Kafka

Published
New York: Gordon Presss, 1977.

Physical Description
135 pp.

Description
In a section called "Springtime in the Canterbury Tales: Chaucer's Inheritance of the Sacred and the Profane" (pp. 1-26), tallies a number of classical and medieval attitudes toward spring and comments on Chaucer's various allusions to and images of spring, Easter, and the months of March, April, and May in CT--devices he uses to "present his characters as truly human creatures."

Alternative Title
"Springtime in the Canterbury Tales: Chaucer's Inheritance of the Sacred and the Profane."

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales