West Meets East: Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale' and the Japanese 'Captain of Naruto'
- Author / Editor
- Stevenson, Barbara.
West Meets East: Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale' and the Japanese 'Captain of Naruto'
- Published
- Poetica (Tokyo) 44 (1995): 41-52.
- Description
- Advocates a multicutural approach to literature by comparing FranT to a thirteenth-century Japanese narrative of the Emperor Gosaga.
- Unlike Aurelius, Gosaga does not release his beloved from her promise, and comparison of the tales highlights how the two works reflect different aspects of feudal societies and medieval cultures.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.