The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
- Author/Editor
- Zuraikat, Malek Jamal.
- Title
- The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
- Published
- Zuraikat, Malek Jamal. "The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2015. Open access at https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/9 (accessed January 28, 2023).
- Review
- From Zuraikat's abstract: "[Because] the anti-crusade voice of Gower and Langland has been discussed by many other scholars, this study focuses on Chaucer's poems and their implicit opposition of crusading. I argue that despite Chaucer's apparent neutrality to crusading as well as other sociopolitical and cultural matters of England, his poetry can hardly be read but as an indirect critique of war in general and crusading in particular . . . ." Before dedicating four chapters to Chaucer and his works, Zuraikat "discusses the dominance as well as nature of crusading in fourteenth-century England" in his first chapter and, in his second, "reads Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' and Langland's 'Piers Plowman' as anti-crusade poems." After discussing selected passages from books IV and VII of CA (pp. 57-65), Zuraikat concludes that "read as a romance of courtly love or as a pilgrimage poem, the anti-crusade voice of Genius, Amans, and Gower is prominent enough not to ignore" (65). [MA. eJGN 42.2] ]
- Date
- 2015
- Gower Subjects
- Backgrounds and General Criticism
Confessio Amantis