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Of all the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale , in which a young schoolboy is murdered by Jews for singing a song in praise of the Virgin Mary, poses a problem to contemporary readers because of the antisemitism of the story it tells. Both the Tale ’s antisemitism and its “Chaucerianism”—its fitness or aptness as part of the Chaucerian canon—are significant topics of reflection for modern readers, who worry about the Tale ’s ethical implications as well as Chaucer’s own implications. Over the past fifty years, scholars have asked: Is the antisemitism in the tale that of the Prioress? Or of Chaucer the pilgrim? Or of Chaucer the author? Or, indeed, whether one ought to discuss antisemitism in the Prioress’s Tale at all, considering the potential anachronism of expecting medieval texts to conform to contemporary ideologies. The Critics and the Prioress responds to a critical stalemate between the demands of ethics and the entailments of methodology. The book addresses key moments in criticism of the Prioress’s Tale —particularly those that stage an encounter between historicism and ethics—in order to interrogate these critical impasses while suggesting new modes for

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Author

Blurton, Heather & Johnson, Hannah

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472122813

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Humanities