Dialogue, Dialogics, and Love: Problems of Chaucer's Poetics in the Melibee
- Author / Editor
- Spencer, Alice.
Dialogue, Dialogics, and Love: Problems of Chaucer's Poetics in the Melibee
- Published
- Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. "The Canterbury Tales" Revisited--21st Century Interpretations (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 228-55.
- Description
- Explores tensions among the Boethian, Platonic form of Mel as a didactic dialogue, the Tale's practical Aristotelian subject matter, and its status as a compilation of composite proverbs. Reflecting a literate author, Mel modifies its sources and opposes the orality of Th. Such tensions problematize the monologic underpinnings of the didactic debate genre.
- Alternative Title
- "Canterbury Tales" Revisited-21st Century Interpretations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations