Upon the Ways: The Structure of 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Rogers, William E.

Title
Upon the Ways: The Structure of 'The Canterbury Tales'

Published
Victoria: University of Victoria, 1986.

Series
English Literary Studies Monograph Series, no. 36.

Description
Manuscript evidence is inconclusive in discovering Chaucer's intention or the coherence and unity of CT. Chapter 2 reacts to D. Howard, "The Idea of the 'Canterbury Tales'," in the concern for genre, text, and reader.
Rogers discusses KnT, MilT, RvT, and CkT in the context of social order and individual freedom; MLT as a Christian poem; WBT, FrT, SumT, ClT, MerT, and FranT as earthly experience; PhyT, PardT, and the problem of evil; ShT, PrT, Th, Mel, MkT, SNT, CYT, ManT, NPT, and the problem of language; ParsT and Ret as conclusion.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.