Privacy and the Boundaries of Fabliau in the 'Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Farrell, Thomas J.

Title
Privacy and the Boundaries of Fabliau in the 'Miller's Tale'

Published
ELH 56 (1989): 773-95.

Description
MilT serves as a corrective to KnT (where chaos in effect breaks down order) by exceeding the typical symmetry of the fabliau (a genre in which order properly has no part). Departing from the "pryvete" set up in its many senses, MilT develops and climaxes as order opens up its secrets.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.