Chaucerian Themes and Style in the 'Franklin's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Mann, Jill.
Chaucerian Themes and Style in the 'Franklin's Tale'
- Published
- Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Volume 1, Part 1: Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition (New York and Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1982), pp. 133-53.
- Description
- Reads FranT as an epitome of the CT to the extent that both are concerned with the "ideal of patience and the problems of time and change," emphasizing the universality of these concerns and their appearances throughout the CT. As in Marie de France's "Guigemar," it is "surrender" that "leads to the release of power" in FranT, a particular manifestation of Chaucer's general concern with fate and "aventure" of life.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Canterbury Tales--General