Chaucer's Exempla: A Study of Their Backgrounds, Characteristics, and Literary Functions
- Author / Editor
- Yeager, Peter Lawrence.
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