“새로 걷는 옛길”: 캔터베리 이야기에서 본당신부 서문과 이야기의 자리매김
“Refreshing Old Path”: Placing The Parson’s Tale in The Canterbury Tales
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The Parson's Tale has been considered one of the most controversial parts in The Canterbury Tales. Closing The Canterbury Tales, the seemingly conservative Parson cools down the storytelling game and tells the most boring tale to "knytte up al this feeste and make an ende" in a "myrie" tale. To make matters more disappointing for the modern readers, his tale leaves the previous game astray forever; moreover, Chaucer the writer of The Canterbury Tales retracts his lifetime career as a secular writer. Critics on each camp (religious and secular) try to criticize or vindicate this awkward ending in the aspect of the structure or the context. In this paper, the Parson is the archetypal clergyman in the Bible even though he reflects some of the Lollards' revolutionary manifesto. First and foremost he is the shepherd taking care of his sheep, and he tries to present the straightfoward 'sentence' to his people. He is repeatedly speaking of penitence as the only way to reach the truthful life. He commands everyone to repent, even though his confidence is subverted in undercurrents, just like the Prophet Jeremiah in the Bible. Unlike him, however, the Parson's treatise on the penitence is realized by Chaucer the writer's Retraction, which practices faithfully the lesson. Thus Chaucer the secular author surrenders all his authority to the biblical Authority, and allows his work as an examplar of the Transubstantiation.
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The Parson's Tale has been considered one of the most controversial parts in The Canterbury Tales. Closing The Canterbury Tales, the seemingly conservative Parson cools down the storytelling game and tells the most boring tale to "knytte up al this feeste and make an ende" in a "myrie" tale. To make matters more disappointing for the modern readers, his tale leaves the previous game astray forever; moreover, Chaucer the writer of The Canterbury Tales retracts his lifetime career as a secular writer. Critics on each camp (religious and secular) try to criticize or vindicate this awkward ending in the aspect of the structure or the context. In this paper, the Parson is the archetypal clergyman in the Bible even though he reflects some of the Lollards' revolutionary manifesto. First and foremost he is the shepherd taking care of his sheep, and he tries to present the straightfoward 'sentence' to his people. He is repeatedly speaking of penitence as the only way to reach the truthful life. He commands everyone to repent, even though his confidence is subverted in undercurrents, just like the Prophet Jeremiah in the Bible. Unlike him, however, the Parson's treatise on the penitence is realized by Chaucer the writer's Retraction, which practices faithfully the lesson. Thus Chaucer the secular author surrenders all his authority to the biblical Authority, and allows his work as an examplar of the Transubstantiation.
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