Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Reeve's Tale, Boccaccio's Decameron, and the French Fabliaux
- Author / Editor
- Heffernan, Carol Falvo.
Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Reeve's Tale, Boccaccio's Decameron, and the French Fabliaux
- Published
- Italica 81: 311-24, 2004
- Description
- Several motifs and verbal echoes among MilT, RvT, and "The Decameron" strengthen the case for "memorial borrowing" and invite the invention of a new critical term for Chaucer's poems: "metrical novellas."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- reeve and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.