Boring Virtue and Interesting Vice: The Literary Conflict Between Morality and Vitality
- Author / Editor
- Watts, Cedric.
Boring Virtue and Interesting Vice: The Literary Conflict Between Morality and Vitality
- Published
- Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Harlow: Longman, 1989), pp. 94-103.
- Description
- Sketches a range of evaluative criteria (moral, social, hedonistic, materialistic, and artistic) to explore how in literature--and in the GP in particular--"moral judgements are largely subverted by artistic judgements," in part the result of the reader's "escape from real life."
- Alternative Title
- Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales