The Canterbury Tales and cardiology.

Another Look at the Hypocrisy of Chaucer’s Pardoner

For us, readers of Chaucer living in an age when appeal to religious passions and sentiments as a means for the realization of worldly objectives by some charlatans has grown significantly, reviewing the theme of religious hypocrisy treated in The Canterbury Tales can be useful in a way that it proves a helpful means for recognizing and dealing with the hypocrites. The Pardoner of the Tales is ...

"A Poet Ther Was": Chaucer's Voices in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Computer-Assisted Methods of Stemmatic Analysis

In this essay, we review the methods of computer-assisted stemmatic analysis available to the Canterbury Tales Project.1 Our belief that these techniques will permit us to arrive at a more exact reconstruction of the history of the Canterbury Tales than could Manly and Rickert (1940) is vital to our decision to undertake this work. There are two major strands to these techniques. The first, cla...

The matriarch of Bath – Chaucer’s feminist insights

This paper critically analyzes Geoffrey Chaucer’s character Allison of his tale “The Wife of Bath” within the Canterbury Tales. The argument is made that Chaucer intentionally used this character to present his personal feminist ideals to his audience, thereby acting as an advocate for women under the guise of literary author. Evidence will be presented both from the text by analyzing her chara...

A Book on Therapeutic Storytelling A review of The Interpretation of Fairy Tales and Anima and Animus in Fairy Tales

The book of The Interpretation of Fairy Tales and Anima and Animus in Fairy Tales, is one of the best books that one can read for the study of Jung’s psychology for two reasons: first, the author was one of the best students of Jung and his colleague for years; secondly, it analyzes the symbols and the concepts of Jungian psychology. This book expertly introduces the concepts of shadow, anima, ...