Reappraising 'The Prioress's Tale': Anti-Judaism, Sentimentality, and High Pathos
- Author / Editor
- Giaccherini, Enrico.
Reappraising 'The Prioress's Tale': Anti-Judaism, Sentimentality, and High Pathos
- Published
- Fausto Ciompi, ed. One of Us: Studi Inglesi e Conradiani Offerti a Mario Curreli (Pisa, Italy: ETS, 2009), pp. 155-66.
- Description
- Distinguishes between "anti-Judaism" and "anti-Semitism," and reads the former as a motif that combines with other devices to produce the excessive pathos of PrT, a form of late-medieval emotional intensity.
- Contributor
- Ciompi, Fausto, ed.
- Alternative Title
- One of Us: Studi Inglesi e Conradiani Offerti a Mario Curreli.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale