Story and Wisdom in Chaucer : The Physician's Tale and The Manciple's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Welsh, Andrew.
Story and Wisdom in Chaucer : The Physician's Tale and The Manciple's Tale
- Published
- Robert Boenig and Kathleen Davis, eds. Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton (Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press; and London: Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 76-95.
- Description
- Examines how narrative and sententiousness interact in The Physician's Tale and The Manciple's Tale as examples of Chaucer's explorations of the nature of this interaction. PhyT is a "story in search of a moral," while ManT is a "collection of morals in search of a story." The two Tales enable us to see Chaucer's interest in the "clash and contest" of these two kinds of discourse. Welsh contrasts the tales with their analogues in Gower's Confessio Amantis.
- Alternative Title
- Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale.
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.