Spanish Modesty in 'The Canterbury Tales': Chaucer and Don Juan Manuel
- Author / Editor
- Serrano Reyes, Jesus L.
Spanish Modesty in 'The Canterbury Tales': Chaucer and Don Juan Manuel
- Published
- SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 5 (1995): 29-45.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's Ret was influenced by the prologue to Don Juan Manuel's "El Conde Lucanor," citing parallels not only in attitude and sentiment but also in structure, syntax, and grammar. Uses discourse analysis to compare linguistic features.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Retraction.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.