Source or Hard Analogue? Decameron X, 10 and the Clerk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Farrell, Thomas J.
Source or Hard Analogue? Decameron X, 10 and the Clerk's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 37: 346-64, 2003.
- Description
- Farrell argues that clear differentiation among types of analogues may enable us to analyze Chaucer's works with more subtlety. A "source" is a work we are certain Chaucer knew; a "hard analogue" is a work that was available to him; a "soft source" has only remote parallels. Although the Decameron is a hard source for ClT, Chaucer did not necessarily draw from it.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.