Idleness and Alchemy in Fragment VIII(G) of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales': Oppositions in Themes and Images from the 'Roman de la Rose'

Author / Editor
Pelen, Marc M.

Title
Idleness and Alchemy in Fragment VIII(G) of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales': Oppositions in Themes and Images from the 'Roman de la Rose'

Published
Forum for Modern Language Studies 31 (1995): 193-214.

Description
Chaucer's mode of composition of SNT and CYT owes much to the structure of "Roman de la Rose," in which the theme of contradictions and contraries plays a major role.
The correspondence goes beyond the specific similarities in image and subject that have long been noted between the two works.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale.