Chaucer's Ethical Palimpsest: Dermal Reflexivity in the "General Prologue."
- Author / Editor
- Cox, Catherine S.
Chaucer's Ethical Palimpsest: Dermal Reflexivity in the "General Prologue."
- Published
- In Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp, eds. Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2918), pp. 97-118.
- Description
- Reasons that just as a parchment leaf bears traces of its animal origins and can bear evidence of writing and rewriting, Chaucer writes the Summoner, the Cook, and the Wife of Bath with attention to their skins and the ways in which they communicate "traces and residual echoes" of their complex behaviors and preoccupations.
- Alternative Title
- Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Cook and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Summoner and His Tale