Chaucer and Medieval Allegory.
- Author / Editor
- Kaske, R. E.
Chaucer and Medieval Allegory.
- Published
- ELH 30 (1963): 175-92.
- Description
- Reviews D. W. Robertson's "A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives" (1962), providing a brief survey of the "prevailing criticism" that challenges the exegetical, patristic, or historicist criticism that Robertson champions, and identifying several critical presuppositions that suggest Robertson's method is too universalized. Includes extended examples of analysis of literary realism in WBP (1-162), "conscience" in the GP description of the Prioress, and the psychological subtlety of Chaucer's characterization of Criseyde in TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Troilus and Criseyde
Language and Word Studies