Some Versions of Chaucerian Irony

Author / Editor
Leffingwell, William Clare,Jr.

Title
Some Versions of Chaucerian Irony

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 41 (1981): 3592A.

Description
Chaucerian irony works variously: in PardT to show unadmitted brotherhood in sin; in MLT to reveal the narrator's limitations; in KnT to undercut chivalry; in TC to show the self-subversion of courtly love; in PF to ridicule the narrator's neglect of the lessons of "Somnium Scipionis" and "De planctu naturae."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.