In the Labyrinth: Reading The Canterbury Tales through The Name of the Rose

Author / Editor
Bisson, Lillian M.

Title
In the Labyrinth: Reading The Canterbury Tales through The Name of the Rose

Published
Medieval Perspectives 7 (1992): 19-33.

Description
Chaucer's and Eco's works appear to be structured as "unicursal labyrinths" but are really based on "multicursal labyrinths" in which no center can be found. Chaucer's aesthetic demonstrates the open quality that Eco finds specific to contemporary art.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General