Letter (Response to Katharine Gittes, "The 'Canterbury Tales and the Arabic Tradition," PMLA 98 (1983): 237-51.)

Author / Editor
Meisami, Julie Scott.

Title
Letter (Response to Katharine Gittes, "The 'Canterbury Tales and the Arabic Tradition," PMLA 98 (1983): 237-51.)

Published
PMLA 99 (1984): 109-11.

Description
In her essay Gittes overemphasizes generalizations about Arabic mathematics, architecture, and literature, especially its "atomization" into component units.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.