The Mind Distended: The 'Retraction' 'Miller's Tale,' and 'Summoner'sTale'
- Author / Editor
- Tschann, Judith.
The Mind Distended: The 'Retraction' 'Miller's Tale,' and 'Summoner'sTale'
- Published
- Jean E. Jost, ed. Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays (New York and London: Garland, 1994), pp. 349-78.
- Description
- Like Ret, the farts in MiltT and SumT remake something for their recipients. On the highest level of abstraction, they combine to remake time from the "end" perspective of death.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Retraction.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Summoner and His Tale.