Tragic Nihilism in "The Canterbury Tales": The Monk as Literary Theorist

Author / Editor
Johnson, Eleanor.

Title
Tragic Nihilism in "The Canterbury Tales": The Monk as Literary Theorist

Published
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 49.1 (2019): 7-31.

Description
Argues that in MkT, the Monk proves himself to be not only a reader and interpreter of tragedy, but also a critic of the concept itself.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale