Retraction and Memory: Retrospective Structure in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
McGerr, Rosemarie Potz.

Title
Retraction and Memory: Retrospective Structure in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Comparative Literature 37 (1985): 97-113.

Description
Like Augustine in his "Retractiones," Chaucer uses Ret to survey his literary career, embodying ideas on the function of memory, experience, literature, and truth.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Retraction.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.