Modes of Irony in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Ramsey, Vance.

Title
Modes of Irony in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 352-79.

Description
Irony--"the Chaucerian pose"--is of five basic types in CT: verbal, structural, dramatic, and philosophic irony, as well as irony of manner.
Reprinted from the first (1968) edition, with updated bibliography.

Alternative Title
Companion to Chaucer Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.