The 'Canterbury Tales': Questions and an Answer

Author / Editor
Ridley, Florence H.

Title
The 'Canterbury Tales': Questions and an Answer

Published
Clausdirk Pollner, Helmut Rohlfing, and Frank-Rutger Hausmann, eds. Bright Is the Ring of Words: Festschrift fur Horst Weinstck zum 65 Geburtstag (Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag, 1996), pp. 251-57.

Description
Briefly surveys the ways Chaucer leaves "gaps" in CT--omissions, repetitions, reversals, etc.--and suggests how ParsT provides a wholeness despite these gaps.

Alternative Title
Bright Is the Ring of Words: Festschrift fur Horst Weinstock zum 65 Geburtstag.

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale.
Canterbury Tales--General.