Shame and Guilt in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- McTaggart, Anne.
Shame and Guilt in Chaucer
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Physical Description
- 192 pp.
- Description
- HF, TC, and CT more commonly represent shame (an exterior phenomenon) than guilt (an interior one); in dialogue with late medieval penitential theology, they suggest the narrative invisibility of guilt. HF and TC tackle the plausibility, in pagan contexts, of shame without guilt. KnT and PhyT correlate communal representations of honor with the necessity of sacrifice to efface communal shame. WBT, FranT, and Mel posit shame's redemptive role in romance. PardT plays an embodied narrative shame against the narrative breakdown of guilt-representation in ParsT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Knight and His Tale
- Physician and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Tale of Melibee
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Parson and His Tale