Herman Melville's "Clarel": The Repudiation of Myth.

Author / Editor
McGuire, Peter Joseph, III.

Title
Herman Melville's "Clarel": The Repudiation of Myth.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. Brown University, 1975. Dissertation Abstracts International A42.12 (1982). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses; accessed August 20, 2025.

Physical Description
1-iv, i-v, 185 pp.

Description
Argues that CT is "the source" of Part II of Melville's "Clarel," comparing the behaviors of the characters of the two works for the ways they reflect a "single perspective" among Chaucer's pilgrims and "totally different perspectives" among Melville's.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General