Art and Symmetry in the 'General Prologue' to the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Mertens-Fonck, Paule.
Art and Symmetry in the 'General Prologue' to the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Actes du Congres d'Amiens 1982. Societe des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur (Paris: Didier, 1987), pp. 41-51.
- Description
- In GP, the pilgrims seem to be arranged symmetrically in two groups of ten on both sides of the central group formed by the five guildsmen and their cook. Each group of ten falls into subgroups of two, three, or four, held together by a similarity of moral outlook and way of life.
- Contributor
- Societe des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur.
- Alternative Title
- Actes du Congres d'Amiens 1982.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.