'The Canterbury Tales': New Proposals of Interpretation

Author / Editor
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.

Title
'The Canterbury Tales': New Proposals of Interpretation

Published
Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti Classe di Lettere, Filosofia e Belle Arti 69 (1995): 1-29.

Description
The systematic inconsistencies between numbers in GP (number of pilgrims "announced" v. number found by reader, number of tales "promised" v. actual number, number of potential narrators v. number of tales told) seem to proceed from a poetic strategy inspired by the nominalist theory of knowledge, designed to invite the reader to a critical reappraisal.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.