The Genre of Chaucer's Fabliau-Tales

Author / Editor
Pearcy, Roy J.

Title
The Genre of Chaucer's Fabliau-Tales

Published
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 329-84.

Description
The comic, satiric, and philosophic sophistication in Chaucer's narratives has no precedent in the fabliaux, but there are models in twelfth-century Latin comedy--notably for MilT (Geta) and MerT (Lidia). Also discusses the theories of Northrop Frye.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Miller and His Tale.
Merchant and His Tale.