Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" as a Postpandemic Text.

Author / Editor
Hindrichsen, Lorenz A.

Title
Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" as a Postpandemic Text.

Published
Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Antara Chatterjee, A. David Lewis, and Brian Callender, eds. Pandemic and Epidemics in Cultural Representation (Singapore: Springer, 2022), pp. 31-48.

Description
Interprets CT as a "compelling psychogram of a diverse community processing massive demographic shifts in the wake of recurrent epidemic waves." Explores disruptions of social and linguistic categories, PardT as an allegory of plague death, various "satirical plague archetypes" among the pilgrims, and tensions between "egocentric coping mechanisms" and "visions of collaborative inclusivity."

Contributor
Ventakesan, Sathyaraj, ed.
Chatterjee, Anatra, ed.
Lewis, A. David, ed.
Callender, Brian, ed.

Alternative Title
Pandemic and Epidemics in Cultural Representation

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Pardoner and His Tale