New Terminology for Sources and Analogues : Or, Let's Forget the Lost French Source for The Miller's Tale

Author / Editor
Beidler, Peter G.

Title
New Terminology for Sources and Analogues : Or, Let's Forget the Lost French Source for The Miller's Tale

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 225-30.

Description
Beidler proposes a refined taxonomy of terms to designate the relationships between a work and its sources (hard source, soft source, hard analogue, soft analogue, and lost source) and argues that--for lack of evidenc--criticism should dispense with the notion of a lost French source for MilT.

Alternative Title
Colloquium: The Afterlife of Origins

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Miller and His Tale.