The Familiar Stranger: The Paradox of Neighborly Love in The Miller's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Wu, Yu-Ching.
The Familiar Stranger: The Paradox of Neighborly Love in The Miller's Tale.
- Published
- Review of English and American Literature 42 (2023): 31-73.
- Description
- Focuses on "neighbor theory" and on uses of "neighebor(es)" in CT to argue that the "concept of community in Chaucer is constantly overshadowed by conflicts of interest and the presence of a loving/fearful neighbor." Assesses MilT as an extended example, where "Chaucer presents neighborly love as an othering device, that not only leads to a crisis of subjecthood, but ultimately exposes the fragility of communal bonds."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale