Some reflections on the 'Tale of Sir Thopas'
- Author / Editor
- Ando, Shinsuke.
Some reflections on the 'Tale of Sir Thopas'
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988), pp. 31-39.
- Description
- Examines words and phrases in Th to reveal "hidden elements of satire and parody," which are intensified by Chaucer's masterful and paradoxical handling of the author in the text. The language of satire and parody defies translation.
- Alternative Title
- Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas.