Why We Can't Stop Fighting about Chaucer's Man of Law.
- Author / Editor
- Erwin, Bonnie J.
Why We Can't Stop Fighting about Chaucer's Man of Law.
- Published
- Enarratio 20 (2016): 41-66.
- Description
- Argues that MLT and MLE are "fundamentally concerned with the transmission of affect." The tale "dramatizes how affect operates as a physical force that realigns individual and collective identities," while the narrator's style, combined with pilgrims' responses to the tale in MLE, "models how affects can leap between narrative worlds and between communities." Through the Tale and responses, Chaucer tests "possibilities for how readers might be moved," provoking modern critical "disputes."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
Style and Versification