The Miller in Oral and Written Narrative--An Aspect of Character or of Role?
- Author / Editor
- Porter, Gerald
The Miller in Oral and Written Narrative--An Aspect of Character or of Role?
- Published
- Risto Hiltunen, Marita Gustafsson, Keith Battarbee, and Liisa Dahl, eds. English Far and Wide: A Festschrift for Inna Koskenniemi (Turku: Turun Yliopisto, 1993), pp. 59-74.
- Description
- The figure of the miller has a dual tradition as it develops from oral to literary presentation: that of a carnivalesque artisan and that of a social-climbing tradesperson. Porter traces literary depictions of millers from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, arguing that Chaucer's Miller and MilT reflect the comic stereotype; RvT, the social critique.
- Alternative Title
- English Far and Wide: A Festschrift for Inna Koskenniemi, 24 January, 1993.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.