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Models Of Ministry

Models of Ministry: Re-reading Chaucer's Friar's Tale

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While critics continue to study Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales, they afford relatively little scholarship to the Friar's Tale .1 In the almost thirty years since the publication of Richard H. Passon's influential semiotic reading, "'Entente' in Chaucer's Friar's Tale," scholars have approached the tale in two primary manners: (1) from an analysis of the friar's story as a comic satire within the frame of his historical feud with the secular summoner-pilgrim; and (2) by utilizing Passon's theoretical apparatus to locate more moments of semiotic ambiguity and tension.2 V.A. Kolve's "'Man in the Middle': Art and Religion in Chaucer's Friar's Tale" altered notably the critical analysis of the friar's narrative by attempting to discuss it as a unified story with its own independent integrity.3 While the Friar's Tale clearly contains numerous......


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