The Chaucer-Gower Analogues: A Study in Literary Technique

Author / Editor
Lundberg, Marlene Helen Cooreman.

Title
The Chaucer-Gower Analogues: A Study in Literary Technique

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1982): 3993A.

Description
Gower and Chaucer treat the same traditional stories differently: Gower typically narrates them as exempla in "Confessio Amantis," whereas Chaucer, breaking from the fixed pattern of LGW, tells them in CT to explore truth.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.