Diverging Forms: Disability and the Monk's Tales.
- Author / Editor
- Hsy, Jonathan.
Diverging Forms: Disability and the Monk's Tales.
- Published
- In Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds. Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 85-98.
- Description
- Reads the tragedies that constitute MkT as disability narratives, exploring how formal strategies within stanzaic units interface with a thematic focus on bodily disorder. MkT enacts a "symbiotic relationship between literary form and social attitudes toward human variance."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Subversion of Form.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale