In the Labyrinth: Reading The Canterbury Tales through The Name of the Rose
- Author / Editor
- Bisson, Lillian M.
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