Chaucer as Literary Critic: The Medieval Romance Genre in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Stark, Marilynn Dianne.
Chaucer as Literary Critic: The Medieval Romance Genre in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 2925A.
- Description
- In CT, Chaucer examines or modifies various elements of the romance genre: adventure, wonder, medieval didacticism, and love. Three narrators of the tales comically muddle the romance: Sir Thopas, the Squire, and the Franklin. KnT is Chaucer's demonstration of a serious, if unconventional, romance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.