From the Many to the One: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Brewer, Derek.

Title
From the Many to the One: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Published
Leo Carruthers and Adrian Papahagi, eds. Prologues et épilogues dans la littérature anglaise du Moyen Âge (Paris: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2001), pp. 55-72.

Description
In CT, Chaucer uses prologues to achieve great diversity, displacing himself with other narrators. He develops a counter movement in his epilogues, in which the conventions of religious epilogues communicate, however tenuously, a unified religious worldview.

Alternative Title
Prologues et épilogues dans la littérature anglaise du Moyen Âge.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Parson and His Tale.
Chaucer's Retraction.