Letter (Reply to Dawood and Meisami)
- Author / Editor
- Gittes, Katharine Slater.
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.