Toward the End: Closure and Structure in the American Short Story
- Author / Editor
- Gerlach, John.
Toward the End: Closure and Structure in the American Short Story
- Published
- UIniversity: University of Alabama Press, 1985.
- Physical Description
- 193 pp.
- Description
- In a section on directness and indirectness in plotting, discusses Boccaccio and Chaucer works as antecedents to modern short-stories, contrasting the directness of "Decameron" 3.5 with the "indirect mode" of CT, particularly NPT (pp. 17-23).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale