Domesticating the Exotic in the 'Squire's Tale'

Author / Editor
Fyler, John M.

Title
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.