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- Title
Performing the Prioress: 'Conscience' and Responsibility in Studies of Chaucer's Prioress's Tale.
- Authors
Calabrese, Michael
- Abstract
Examines the critical language scholars use to study Geoffrey Chaucer's poem 'Prioress's Tale.' Professional and institutional implications of a politically driven medieval literary criticism; Cultural politicization of medieval studies; Argument that literary criticism does not meet the basic criteria for ethics; Absence of evidence that the tale participated in or incited anti-Judaic attitudes or actions in Chaucer's England.
- Subjects
CANTERBURY Tales: The Prioress's Tale; CHAUCER, Geoffrey, d. 1400; MIDDLE English poetry; ANTISEMITISM in literature; HISTORICAL criticism (Literature); CRITICISM
- Publication
Texas Studies in Literature & Language, 2002, Vol 44, Issue 1, p66
- ISSN
0040-4691
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/tsl.2002.0001