Chaucer's Way with His Sources: Accident into Substance and Substance into Accident
- Author / Editor
- Diekstra. F. (N. M.)
Chaucer's Way with His Sources: Accident into Substance and Substance into Accident
- Published
- English Studies 62 (1981): 215-36.
- Description
- In most of his poems Chaucer exploits the traditional material to create a double view, one inherent in the material and the other produced by his handling of them. He inherited this technique from Jean de Meun; in BD and the "Roman," for example, the Reason figures both fail ironically to communicate their wisdom. NPT and PardT provide other prominent examples of the double view.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Book of the Duchess.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.