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.
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.