The Idea of the "Canterbury Tales"
- Author / Editor
- Howard, Donald R.
The Idea of the "Canterbury Tales"
- Published
- Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
- Physical Description
- 403 pp.
- Description
- Although CT is unfinished, it is aesthetically complete. The GP is structured to reveal typifying groups. The tales are ordered into thematic clusters. The ParsT provides a satisfying closure. The structure of the poem is the interlace or labyrinth so characteristic of medieval art and architecture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Parson and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.