
Patterns of Religious Narrative in the Canterbury Tales
Roger Ellis(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
324 pages
978-0-367-35746-7 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1986. This study asks 'What problems confront the narrator of a religious story?' and 'What different solutions to those problems are offered by the religious narratives of The Canterbury Tales?' The introduction explains the grounds for inclusion of the tales here studied then examined in three sections. The first includes the tales of the Clerk, Prioress and Second Nun, and Chaucer's Melibee, and explores the parallels between the production of a religious narrative and that of a faithful translation. The second considers how the tales of the Man of Law, Monk and Physician, though formally similar to those in the first section, subvert the offered parallel by their creation of narrators who actively mediate them to their audience, and who seem as concerned with the projection of their own personalities as with the transmission of the given story. The final section shows how the tales of the Pardoner and Nun's Priest highlight the dilemma and provide distinctive resolutions. The whole study aims to explore the dynamic relationships that exist between two contrasting positions: an artist's commitment to the authority of a given story and his need to assert himself over it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-35746-7 (9780367357467)
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Content
Preface 1. Introduction Part 1: The Narrator as Translator 2. The Clerk's Tale 3. Saint's Tales: The Prioress's Tale 4. Saints Tales: The Second Nun's Tale 5. Chaucer's Melibee Part 2: Religious Subjects, Literary Interests and the Sense of a Performance 6. The Man of Law's Tale 7. The Monk's Tale 8. The Physician's Tale Part 3: Towards a Conclusion 9. The Pardoner's Tale 10. The Nun's Priest's Tale