Chaucer as Literary Critic: The Medieval Romance Genre in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Stark, Marilynn Dianne.

Title
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.