Letter (Reply to Dawood and Meisami)

Author / Editor
Gittes, Katharine Slater.

Title
Letter (Reply to Dawood and Meisami)

Published
PMLA 99 (1984): 111-12.

Description
The open-ended frame tale appears to have originated in Arabic literature. Arabic aesthetic can depend on the component unit.
A reply to responses to Gittes' essay "The 'Canterbury Tales' and Arabic Tradition," PMLA 98 (1983): 237-51; responses by Ibrahim Dawood, PMLA 99 (1984):109, and Julie Scott Meisami, 99 (1984):109-11.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.