Chaucer's Digressive Mode and the Moral of the 'Manciple's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Diekstra, F. N. M.
Chaucer's Digressive Mode and the Moral of the 'Manciple's Tale'
- Published
- Neophilologus 67 (1983): 131-48.
- Description
- Chaucer has adapted "ironic hints" from the analogue in Machaut's "Voir dit" to a bourgeois persona that demolishes "finer sensibilities," thus ironically reversing the tenor of the older material.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.