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Chaucer's clergeon, or towards holiness in The Prioress's Tale.(LITERATURE)(Geoffrey Chaucer)(Critical essay)

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From: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of EnglishStudies
Date: 20070101
Author:Czarnowus, Anna

The brief appearance and subsequent disappearance of the child are illogical, ominous, and loaded with significance beyond the understanding of the other characters and of the reader (Shahar 1991: 135).

ABSTRACT

A narrative aestheticized in Pre-Raphaelite visual arts and a politically charged issue in contemporary criticism, Chaucer's Prioress's tale focuses on the figure of an "enigmatic child", whose body is severed by the Jews. The boy's uncanniness and holiness are constructed in stages, while the ethnic identity of his persecutors may not be as important as some ...

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