The Interpretive Marketplace in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Sheridan, Christian Charles.

Title
The Interpretive Marketplace in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
DAI 62: 2756A, 2002.

Description
Sheridan explores ways that language is like money in acts of interpretation, examining the role of the Host in CT, readers' valuations of various tales, patronage and interpretive control, and the "mercantile" strategies of May (MerT) and the Wife of Bath.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.