Form and Social Statement in 'Confessio Amantis' and 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Strohm, Paul.
Form and Social Statement in 'Confessio Amantis' and 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 17-40.
- Description
- Gower's "Confessio" and Chaucer's CT reflect a process of mediation in which problematic social realities are restated or reconceived. The two writers treat two medieval aesthetics, unity-in-diversity and hierarchies, though Chaucer encourages contrary possibilities while Gower seeks to reconcile old forms and new content.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.