Structural Models for the Fabliaux and the Summoner's Tale Analogues
- Author / Editor
- Pearcy, Roy J.
Structural Models for the Fabliaux and the Summoner's Tale Analogues
- Published
- Fabula 15 (1974): 103-13.
- Description
- Benson and Andersson's discussion in "The Literary Context of Chaucer's Fabliaux" (1971) fails to account for the complexity of folktale derivation. A tale may have two sets of analogues, one set related through surface structure (detail, character, theme) and the other through deep structure (plot type). Explores the "deep structure" and syllogistic underpinnings of the fabliaux genre by examining similarities and differences among SumT, "Le Vescie a Prestre," and legendary anecdotes about Til Eulenspiel and Jean de Meun. Focuses on abrupt shift from illusion to reality or recognition as the definitive feature of the genre.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.