Life and Fiction in the Canterbury Tales: A New Perspective
- Author / Editor
- Mertens-Fonck, Paule.
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.