Formal Analysis of Traditional Fictions

Author / Editor
Martin, Wallace,and Nick Conrad.

Title
Formal Analysis of Traditional Fictions

Published
Papers on Language and Literature 17 (1981): 3-22.

Description
The Levi-Strauss formula for the structure of myth can be applied to analogues of ShT to illuminate disputed interpretations. In a list of similar actions in columns, not chronological, the ShT shows eight implications of the Levi-Strauss formula.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.