Part Twenty
Of all Chaucer's tales in the Canterbury Group, The Prioress's
Tale of the Virgin Mary and the murdered child ranks among the most
popular and surely the most admired for its artistry. Nonetheless,
it has encountered its fair share of somewhat hostile criticism on
purely social and cultural grounds, owing in part to a negative
evaluation of the Prioress herself (she is seen by some as a
shallow person who does not recognize the harmful implications of
her utterances), in part to the anti-Semitic cast of the tale.
Beverly Boyd's tough-minded, crisp approach to the tale enables
her to present an overview of the great diversity of scholarship in
both the sympathetic and hostile approaches to the work; to examine
its strongest ingredients, the liturgical borrowings that form a
kind of subtext; and thus to offer a balanced view of one of
Chaucer's most carefully crafted poems.
Her examination of the sources and analogues, of Miracles of the
Virgin, of considerations of style and structure, along with a full
treatment of the textual tradition of the Prioress's Sequence and
an unusually full corpus of explanatory notes, taken together,
provide a rich and complete edition of the tale, one that will
prove to be of exceptional value for the teacher and the
scholar.
General
Imprint: |
University of Oklahoma Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Variorum Chaucer Series |
Release date: |
October 1987 |
First published: |
October 1987 |
Authors: |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
224 |
Edition: |
1st ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8061-2045-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8061-2045-2 |
Barcode: |
9780806120454 |
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