Telling Differences : Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and Renaud de Louens' Livre de Mellibee et Prudence
- Author / Editor
- Grace, Dominick [M.]
Telling Differences : Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and Renaud de Louens' Livre de Mellibee et Prudence
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 82 (2003): 367ı400.
- Description
- Mel interprets and transforms its source. Chaucer's alterations, although slight, tend to undercut the allegorical reading, qualifying Prudence's authority and conclusions. Mel makes explicit concepts that are implicit in the original: the limitations of human knowledge and the difficulty of deciding on proper authoritative bases for reaching any decision.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.