Time in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Taylor, Paul Beekman.

Title
Time in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Exemplaria 7 (1995): 371-93.

Description
The time of the Canterbury pilgrimage imitates the time and eternity of the cosmos. In the poem, time acts as a measurable conceptual principle for men, but it is embodied as a perceptual force in women such as the hag in WBT and Griselda in ClT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.