'Hevest Up the Door': Overcoming Obstacles to Meaning in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Fuller, David.

Title
'Hevest Up the Door': Overcoming Obstacles to Meaning in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'

Published
Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 9 (1988): 17-28.

Description
A wide variety of interpretations and levels of meaning make MilT both oblique and clear. Chaucer yokes contradictory elements and obscures an underlying morality "to catch off guard his sophisticated readers--the 'clerical and courtly elite'--who were familiar with medieval exegesis."

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.