The Pilgrimage Narrative and the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Reiss, Edmund.
The Pilgrimage Narrative and the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Studies in Philology 67 (1970): 295-305.
- Description
- Considers CT among other medieval pilgrimage narratives, distinguishing them from other journey narratives and emphasizing what makes CT unusual: "concretization, fragmentation, and emphasis on the human." Comments on pilgrimage as the "dynamic principle" of CT, the tale-tellers as "true and false seekers," the reading audience as pilgrims, the fittingness of ParsT as a conclusion, and the importance of the number twenty-nine in GP and ParsP as "approaching most closely to 30," a sign of spiritual perfection.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Parson and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations