Closure in the Canterbury Tales

The Role of The Parson's Tale

AvTBD,David Raybin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

Del 41 i serien Studies in Medieval Culture

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Beskrivning

For all its spiritual cheerfulness and obvious importance as a tale to conclude tales, a last word from a notable maker of words, The Parson's Tale seems to have inspired sentence and solaas in remarkably few critics. This volume rejects the tradition that assumes the tale to be of questionable literary value. The studies included span the range of Parson's Tale criticism from the textual, to the philological, to the hermeneutical. What they share is the assumption that if one is to understand the role of The Parson's Tale, one must begin by accepting the language and method by which Chaucer fashioned it. This rethinking of traditional scholarship on this crucial aspect of The Canterbury Tales will be of great interest to Chaucer scholars and students of medieval literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:2000-07-01
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:605 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Medieval Culture
Antal sidor:290
Förlag:Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN:9781580440110

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David Raybin is a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University and has extensively published on the Canterbury Tales. Linda Tarte Holley is professor emerita of English from North Carolina State University

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by David Raybin and Linda Tarte HolleyThe Parson's Tale in Current Literary Studies by Siegfried Wenzel"Manye been the weyes": The Flower, Its Roots, and the Ending of The Canterbury Tales by David RaybinThe Parson's Tale and Its Generic Affiliations by Richard NewhauserProlegomenon to a Print History of the Parson's Tale: The Novelty and Legacy of Wynkyn de Worde's Text by Daniel J. RansomThe Words of the Parson's "Vertuous Sentence" by Peggy KnappChaucer's Parson and the "Idiosyncracies of Fiction" by Judith FersterDropping the Personae and Reforming the Self: The Parson's Tale and the End of The Canterbury Tales by Gregory Roper"The goode wey": Ending and Not-Ending in the Parson's Tale by Charlotte GrossEpilogue: Closing the Eschatological Account by Linda Tarte HolleyBibliography of Scholarship Treating the Parson's Tale by David RaybinContributorsIndex