Chaucer's Exempla: A Study of Their Backgrounds, Characteristics, and Literary Functions

Author / Editor
Yeager, Peter Lawrence.

Title
Chaucer's Exempla: A Study of Their Backgrounds, Characteristics, and Literary Functions

Published
DAI 35.06 (1974): 3780A.

Description
Defines "exemplum" and describes the history of the genre before Chaucer; then focuses on Chaucer's innovative uses of the device to produce comedy in MilT, SqT, and SumT, also commenting at length on exempla clusters in HF and FranT.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Squire and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale
House of Fame