On Adjudication and Narrative in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Barker, David Stephen.
On Adjudication and Narrative in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 2199A.
- Description
- Law and its applications influence literary audiences, and Chaucer exploits the possibilties variously. In KnT, trial by combat fails to effect closure; Theseus must intervene. Melibee's final verdict acts similarly in Mel. In SumT, however, the closure is narrowly legalistic.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Tale of Melibee.
- Summoner and His Tale.