Domesticating the Exotic in the 'Squire's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Fyler, John M.
Domesticating the Exotic in the 'Squire's Tale'
- Published
- ELH 55 (1988): 1-26.
- Description
- Romance typically treats ambiguous doubles, threatened incest,and the unfallen world. Though SqT fits both genre and teller, it devalues the marvelous (e.g., the dry tree) and transmutes its components (analogously to but differently from CYT). The Squire treats the "other" without understanding that his apparent sympathy may be self-interest.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale.