Pilgrimage and Storytelling in the "Canterbury Tales": The Dialetic of "Ernest" and "Game"
- Author / Editor
- Owen, Charles A.,Jr.
Pilgrimage and Storytelling in the "Canterbury Tales": The Dialetic of "Ernest" and "Game"
- Published
- Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977.
- Physical Description
- 253 pp.
- Description
- The conception of CT is an inherent conflict between the pilgrimage to a martyr's shrine in Canterbury and the game of storytelling to be consummated by a feast in Southwark. The development of the collection reveals movement away from Canterbury towards Southwark.
- The crucial moment came when Chaucer detached the Wife of Bath's developing confession from the Man of Law's epilogue and moved it to a position on the homeward journey. In his final plan, CT was not intended to end with ParsT, but with the marriage group back at Southwark.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Parson and His Tale.