The Rock and the Garden: The Limits of Illusion in Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Bleeth, Kenneth A.
The Rock and the Garden: The Limits of Illusion in Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale'
- Published
- English Studies 74 (1993): 113-23.
- Description
- The fantasies of the rocks and the garden, initially denoting personal obsession, lose their ominous character when Dorigen and Aurelius enter into dialogue, a discourse grounded in mutual understanding. Unlike the dangerous rocks, threats to our happiness can in this way genuinely be made to disappear.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.