The Canterbury Tales : A Reading
- Author / Editor
- Traversi, Derek.
The Canterbury Tales : A Reading
- Published
- Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 1983.
- Description
- This critical reading views the beginning and ending as fixed,"twin pillars...within which the unfolding fresco of the action is contained." Traversi explores that action in three parts: KnT and the two fabliaux; the tales of marriage and "maistrie;" and finally, a less unified set of tales beginning with the PardT and ending with NPT, where moral assumptions and the validity of fiction come into question and the relativity of the comic vision emerges.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.