The 'Canterbury Tales' and the Arabic Frame Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Gittes, Katharine Slater.
The 'Canterbury Tales' and the Arabic Frame Tradition
- Published
- PMLA 98 (1983): 237-51.
- Description
- Arabic literature--characteristically framed, open-ended, "eye-witness," first-person narrative, often including a journey--prefigures Boccaccio's "Decameron," Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and Chaucer's CT. Petrus Alfonsi's twelfth-century "Disciplina clericalis" may link traditions of East and West.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.