Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Frye, Northrop.
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Robert D. Denham, ed. Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989: Unpublished Papers, Volume 10 (Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 131-43.
- Description
- Critiques the inconsistencies and overall lack of unity in CT, contrasting it with the structural and thematic wholeness of HF and TC, and castigating the sententiousness of Mel, ParsT, and Ret. Attributes the lack of unity and the inconclusiveness of CT to Chaucer's "fatigue."
- Contributor
- Denham, Robert D., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989: Unpublished Papers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Tale of Melibee
- Parson and His Tale
- Chaucer's Retraction