Poets and the Poetics of Sin [1989]
- Author / Editor
- Kane, George.
Poets and the Poetics of Sin [1989]
- Published
- Daniel Donoghue, James Simpson, and Nicholas Watson, eds. The Morton W. Bloomfield Lectures, 1989-2005 (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2010), pp. 1-19.
- Description
- The first of the Bloomfield lectures. Traces the impact of "hamartiology" (the study of sin and crisis) in Langland's "Piers Plowman" and Chaucer's CT, especially in GP and the fabliaux. Estates satire, penitential handbooks, and other examples of "awareness of sin" inform the poetics of both poets, evident in particular details and attitudes in their works.
- Contributor
- Donoghue, Daniel, ed.
- Simpson, James, ed.
- Watson, Nicholas, ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Morton W. Bloomfield Lectures, 1989-2005. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2010.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations