Keeping up Appearances : Chaucer's Franklin and the Magic of the Breton Lay Genre
- Author / Editor
- Lucas, Angela.
Keeping up Appearances : Chaucer's Franklin and the Magic of the Breton Lay Genre
- Published
- Brian Cosgrove, ed. Literature and the Supernatural: Essays for the Maynooth Bicentenary (Blackrock, Ireland: Columba, 1996), pp. 11-32.
- Description
- Assesses FranT in light of the conventions of the genre of the Breton lay: prologue, setting, rash promise, magic, impossible task, love triangle, and love. According to Lucas, the distortion of these conventions indicates that the Franklin does not understand the "nature of this old fashioned aristocratic magical literary genre."
- Contributor
- Cosgrove, Brian,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Literature and the Supernatural: Essays for the Maynooth Bicentenary.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.