The Number of Chaucer's Pilgrims: A Review and Reappraisal
- Author / Editor
- Eckhardt, Caroline D.
The Number of Chaucer's Pilgrims: A Review and Reappraisal
- Published
- Yearbook of English Studies 5 (1975): 1-18.
- Description
- The observable final total of pilgrims is 33, a symbolically significant sum. The Pilgrim Chaucer's two tales may have been meant as a center-point signifying a shift from game to earnest. The initial statement that there were 29 may demonstrate the fallibility of the narrator's vision.
- Reprinted in Caroline D. Eckhardt, ed. Essays in the Numerical Criticism of Medieval Literature (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1980), pp. 156-84.
- Alternative Title
- Numerical Criticism of Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.