Chaucer's Bad Tales: The Aesthetic Forms of Late Medieval Pathos and the Tradition of 'Sermo Humilis'
- Author / Editor
- Weissman, Hope Phyllis.
Chaucer's Bad Tales: The Aesthetic Forms of Late Medieval Pathos and the Tradition of 'Sermo Humilis'
- Published
- DAI 34.06 (1973): 3362A.
- Description
- Traces the development of the "sermo humilis" tradition in literature and the visual arts as a context for Chaucer's uses of "pathetic style" in the Ugolino episode of MkT, PrT, PhyT, and MLT, arguing that these accounts reflect the evolution of Gothic pathos.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Physician and His Tale
- Man of Law and His Tale