A Tale of 'synne and harlotries'? The Miller's Tale as Social Ideology

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dc.contributor.authorKnoetze, Retha
dc.contributor.editorHouliston,Victor
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-03T12:13:15Z
dc.date.available2019-09-03T12:13:15Z
dc.date.created2015
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis article provides a detailed discussion of how romance tropes are parodied in the Miller’s Tale in order to pose a social challenge to the Knight’s Tale and in order to reject the vertical view of social relations which romance tales traditionally uphold. Through a comprehensive investigation of this issue, the article illustrates Paul Strohm’s argument that the clash between the romance genre of the Knight’s Tale and the fabliau genre of the Miller’s Tale symbolically reflects the tension between two different ideologies simultaneously present within Chaucer’s society. The Miller’s fabliau tale is shown to express a mercantile outlook of calculation in one’s own interest that was becoming more prominent in the increasingly commercial world of late fourteenth-century England, as opposed to the feudal view of social relations which is found in the Knight’s Tale.
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dc.identifier.issn1017-3455
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12430/549112
dc.journal.titleSouthern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
dc.journal.volume25
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherThe Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SASMARS)
dc.subjectMiddle Ages -- Periodicals.en_ZA
dc.subjectRenaissance -- Periodicals.
dc.subjectMiddle Ages.
dc.subjectRenaissance.
dc.titleA Tale of 'synne and harlotries'? The Miller's Tale as Social Ideology
dc.typeJournal Article
local.PlaceUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein , Johannesburg
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