The Crucial Passages in Five of the "Canterbury Tales": A Study in Irony and Symbol.
- Author / Editor
- Owen, Charles A., Jr.
The Crucial Passages in Five of the "Canterbury Tales": A Study in Irony and Symbol.
- Published
- JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 52 (1953): 294–311.
- Description
- Explores five passages from CT that stylistically and thematically "expose the limited vision of created character and creating narrator," pose the comic "contrast between what 'is' and what men see--of themselves and of others," and serve a "symbolic and unifying function" for the entire work. Analyzes Dorigen's rash promise (FranT 5.988-98), January's praise of marriage (MerT 5.1319-36), the loathly lady's demand that the knight marry her (WBT 3. 1062-66), the rioters; decision to stop pursuing Death (PardT 6.772), and Chauntecleer's praise of Pertelote's beauty (7.4347-61).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales: General
Style and Versification
Franklin and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale