A Discussion of the Archetype of the Supernatural Husband and the Supernatural Wife As It Appears in Some of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Wicher, Andrzej.
A Discussion of the Archetype of the Supernatural Husband and the Supernatural Wife As It Appears in Some of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- REALB: The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (Tubingen) 7 (1990): 19-60.
- Description
- Considers Chaucer's tales of marriage in light of patterns of the supernatural marriages in folktales, identifying MLT and SNT as tales that transcend marital opposition through allegory, and viewing ClT, MerT, FranT, and SqT as tales in which the "strangeness" of the marital relation is realistically left "unmediated." WBT is most like folktales of supernatural marriage, harmonizing the marital conflict in a pervasive "all-connectedness."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.