Chaucer and the 'Romance of the Rose'

Author / Editor
Diekstra, F. N. M.

Title
Chaucer and the 'Romance of the Rose'

Published
English Studies 69 (1988): 12-26.

Description
Chaucer is indebted to "The Romance of the Rose" for many of his techniques of irony, such as the juxtaposition of units not in themselves ironical, the exposure of hypocritical or false reasoning, the unreliable narrator, ironical digression, and exegetical travesties like those of the Wife of Bath.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.