Pity and Poetics in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women."
- Author / Editor
- Schuurman, Anne.
Pity and Poetics in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women."
- Published
- PMLA 130.5 (2015): 1302-17.
- Description
- Discusses "the narrator's rhetoric of pity," alluding to Augustine, Aristotle, Cicero, and others, while arguing that both pity and poetry involve "a kind of authentic inauthenticity" that is unstable, paradoxical, and contingent in LGW.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women