Chaucer's "Retraction": Who Retracted What?
- Author / Editor
- Campbell, A. P.
Chaucer's "Retraction": Who Retracted What?
- Published
- Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa 35 (1965): 35-53.
- Description
- Accepts Ret as earnest but impersonated, surveying critical opinions, and suggesting that it is best read as an instance of Chaucer's "contrast principle" in operation, offering examples of his "many pretended or real about-faces" in CT. After ParsT, Ret "switch[es] us back to Chaucer the pilgrim, who has listened with his usual enthusiasm and commitment, to the Parson's sermon on the rejection of worldliness and the necessity of repentance."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Retraction
Parson and His Tale
Canterbury Tales--General