Countrefete Cheere”
Kitsch, Taste, and The Prioress’s Tale
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12358396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gina Ann Dominick (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Exemplaria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-2573 • E-ISSN: 1753-3074 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10412573.2019.1555245 |
| OpenAlex | W2915863918 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
With her particular and prim manners, extreme sentimentality, religious fanaticism, and highly stylized poetics, Chaucer’s Prioress exemplifies many of the aesthetic, ideological, and contextual ambivalences of kitsch. In this article, I enable the critical language of kitsch from theorist Theodor W. Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory (published in 1970) and the paradox presented in the Nazis’ “Anti-Kitsch Law” to present a new framework for understanding the complexities of Chaucer’s The Prioress’s Tale. Kitsch, I argue, disrupts rather than sustains the text’s aesthetic appeal to religious sensibility and communal affirmation. In the process, the Tale raises aesthetic and ethical questions regarding the ideology of forms that aestheticize or “harmonize” ugliness, especially death
Aesthetics · Art · Fanaticism · Ideology · Kitsch · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Taste · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
The Postcolonial Middle Ages
The middle ages and the Holocaust
The Living Witnesses of Our Redemption”
Making the Aesthetic Turn
The Shadow of Chaucer's Jews
The Premodern Text and the Postmodern Reader
Criticism, Anti-Semitism, and the Prioress's Tale
The Place of the Jews”
The Nazification of Art
Reflections on Nazism
The Sweet Lean of His Head
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
To Make Women Weep
So That We May Speak of Them
Sermones de Vetere Testamento
The Alterity and Modernity of Medieval Literature
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |