Closure in the Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale: 41 (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture) - Softcover

Linda Tarte Holley, David Raybin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580440126 ISBN 13: 9781580440127

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580440126
• ISBN 13: 9781580440127
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 289