Fragments I-II and II-V in the 'Canterbury Tales': A Re-Examination of the Idea of the 'Marriage Group'
- Author / Editor
- Zong-qui, Cai.
Fragments I-II and II-V in the 'Canterbury Tales': A Re-Examination of the Idea of the 'Marriage Group'
- Published
- Comitatus 19 (1988): 80-98.
- Description
- Explores the relationship between fragments I and II and the "Marriage Group," reading the tales in I and II and III through V as "an ongoing discourse between Chaucer and the ultimate narrator and reader." Argues that Kittredge's concept of the "Marriage Group" has inhibited examination of Chaucer's comprehensive discussion of marriage in KnT, MilT, RvT, MLT, WBT, ClT, MerT, and FranT and that the Ellesmere order is the true, Chaucerian order.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.