The "Monk's Tale": Disability/Ability.
- Author / Editor
- Hsy, Jonathan.
The "Monk's Tale": Disability/Ability.
- Published
- In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.
- Physical Description
- [8 pp.]
- Description
- Describes how GP reflects "Chaucer's fascination" with social diversity and "bodily variety," and reads MkT as a "verse anthology of disability narratives," using various approaches drawn from disability studies to examine several of the Monk's accounts, those of Antiochus and Zenobia most extensively. Designed for pedagogical use, includes several questions for discussion.
- Alternative Title
- The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales