Genre, Convention, Parody, and the 'Middle Flight': 'Heike Monogatari' and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Watson, Michael.

Title
Genre, Convention, Parody, and the 'Middle Flight': 'Heike Monogatari' and Chaucer

Published
Poetica (Tokyo) 44 (1995): 23-40.

Description
Despite the difficulties of comparing literature cross-culturally, CT and the "Heike Monogatari" are similar in their "middle" styles, their adaptability to parody, and their capacious allusions to "native and foreign literary studies."

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.