Herman Melville's "Clarel": The Repudiation of Myth.
- Author / Editor
- McGuire, Peter Joseph, III.
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