Shame and Guilt in Chaucer [electronic resource] /
McTaggart, Anne.author.
Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Shame and Guilt, Now and Then; 2. Shamed Guiltless in Chaucer's Pagan Antiquity; 3. Honor, Purity, and Sacrifice in The Knight's Tale and The Physician's Tale; 4. Structures of Reciprocity in Chaucerian Romance; 5. The Ills of Illocution: Shame, Guilt, and Confession in The Pardoner's Tale and The Parson's Tale; Conclusion: Chaucer and Medieval Shame Culture; Notes; Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Literature, Medieval.
Poetry.
British literature.
Literature-History and criticism.
History of Medieval Europe.
Medieval Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary History.