Step Parallelism in Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale': Meaning Through Structure

Author / Editor
Brown, Carole Koepke.

Title
Step Parallelism in Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale': Meaning Through Structure

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1987): 3030A.

Description
That theme relates to numerical structures is apparent not only in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" but also in FranT,where each of the three parts reveals a pattern of A ("a major trouthe"), B (complaint), and C (helpful human intervention). Thus, Boethian order in society is restored through "gentilesse."

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.