Chaucer and John of Garland: Memory and Style in the First Fragment

Author / Editor
Buckmaster, Elizabeth.

Title
Chaucer and John of Garland: Memory and Style in the First Fragment

Published
Medieval Perspectives 1 (1986): 31-40.

Description
The levels of style of the first three Canterbury tales correspond to John of Garland's columnar figure, which is itself a memory locus derived from classical rhetoric.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.