'The Man of Law's Tale': A Spatial Form in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Weiss, Merle Madelyn.

Title
'The Man of Law's Tale': A Spatial Form in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1975): 2861A.

Description
In MLT and ClT scenes are juxtaposed and time spatialized. Dramatic moments never occur. In both tales, the shaping of expectations underscores the artifice of the poet.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.
Clerk and His Tale.