Chaucer's Low Seriousness: A Study of the Ironic Structure in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Welch, Jane T.
Chaucer's Low Seriousness: A Study of the Ironic Structure in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 3569A-70A.
- Description
- Comic irony was used by Chaucer throughout CT, even in the tales generally considered to be serious or pious. ManT, SumT, FranT, PhyT, MLT, PrT, SNT, and ClT all display Chaucer's ironic point of view, although the reader's appreciaiton of this subtler irony depends on his having read GP, MilT, WBT, and NPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.