Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" and the Spiritual Side of Race.
- Author / Editor
- Whitaker, Cord J.
Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" and the Spiritual Side of Race.
- Published
- Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), pp. 68-88.
- Description
- Explores relations among rhetorical and philosophical principles of contrariety, Alison's "freedom from consequences" in the plot of MilT, blackness and whiteness in physiognomy, and the black and white imagery in the description of Alisoun's clothing in MilT (3235–56). Argues that Alisoun's clothing represents "a call for a nuanced interpretive process that registers blackness as an epistemic tool fundamental to the production of meaning." Also comments on the complementary contrariety of black and white in TC, I.638ff.
- Alternative Title
- Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde
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