The Friar as Critic: Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Allen, Judson Boyce.
The Friar as Critic: Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages
- Published
- Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971.
- Physical Description
- xi, 176 pp.
- Description
- Describes modes of literary analysis and understanding characteristic of the late Middle Ages, derived from the work of "classicizing writers" such as Robert Holcot, John Lathbury, Thomas Ringstead, John Ridewell, John Bromyard, Thomas Waleys, and Nicholas Trevet. The section dedicated to "Applications" of such theory includes commentary in KnT and MilT as "literal" poetry, on NPT as ironic poetry, and on various ways that Chaucer generally "reveals a fundamentally ironic attitude toward spiritual sense poetry."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Knight and His Tale
- Miller and His Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale