Life and Fiction in the Canterbury Tales: A New Perspective

Author / Editor
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.

Title
Life and Fiction in the Canterbury Tales: A New Perspective

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 105-15.

Description
Chaucer's use of the name "Eglentyne" in the description of the Prioress in GP and in a scene of KnT emphasizes the disparity between reality and the courtly love tradition.

Alternative Title
Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Prioress and Her Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.