Chaucer and 'Courtly Love'

Author / Editor
Haruta, Setsuko.

Title
Chaucer and 'Courtly Love'

Published
Masachiyo Amano and others, eds. Kotoba to Bungaku to Bunka to: Ando Sadao Hakushi Taikan Kinen Ronbunshu (Language, Literature, and Culture: Essays to Honor Sadao Ando). Tokyo: Eicho-sha Shiusha, 1992), pp. 305-14.

Description
In KnT, neither the narrator nor the characters comprehend the ideal of courtly love. In BD, Chaucer depicts it fully; in TC, he reveal its weakness when confronted with reality. FranT reflects a bourgeois distortion of courtly love.

Contributor
Amano, Masachiyo.

Alternative Title
Kotoba to Bungaku to Bunka to: Ando Sadao Hakushi Taiken Kinen Ronbunshu (Language, Literature, and Culture: Essays to Honor Sadao Ando).

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Book of the Duchess.
Franklin and His Tale.