['Mayde and Modor,' 'Almighty and Al Merciable Quenne': An Analysis of the Meaning of Virgin Mary in Chaucer's 'An ABC,' the 'Prioress's Tale,' and the 'Second Nun'[s] Tale']
- Author / Editor
- Choi, Yejung.
['Mayde and Modor,' 'Almighty and Al Merciable Quenne': An Analysis of the Meaning of Virgin Mary in Chaucer's 'An ABC,' the 'Prioress's Tale,' and the 'Second Nun'[s] Tale']
- Published
- Feminist Studies in English Literature 12.1 (2004): 249-78.
- Description
- Assesses the overt or implied gender of the narrator in ABC, in PrPT, and in SNPT, exploring how each correlates with the depiction of the Virgin Mary in these works. Suggests that these depictions indicate that Chaucer was a "keen observer of the change" in late-medieval religious experience, especially that of women. In Korean, with an English summary.
- Chaucer Subjects
- ABC
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Second Nun and Her Tale