The Idea of the "Canterbury Tales"

Author / Editor
Howard, Donald R.

Title
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.