Symbolic Stories Traditional Narratives of the Family Drama in English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, Derek.
Symbolic Stories Traditional Narratives of the Family Drama in English Literature
- Published
- Cambridge:
- Totowa, N.J.: D. S. Brewer;
- Rowman and Littlefield, 1980.
- Physical Description
- 190 pp.
- Description
- Underlying many traditional stories is the basic structure of the individual emerging into adulthood and establishing his or her identity by destroying parent-images and finding a beloved equal. A chapter on Chaucer establishes his equivocal and somewhat negative attitude toward this theme.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.