Pity and Poetics in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women."

Author / Editor
Schuurman, Anne.

Title
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