Chaucer's Quizzical Mode of Exemplfication
- Author / Editor
- Diekstra, F. N. M.
Chaucer's Quizzical Mode of Exemplfication
- Published
- Nijmegen: Dekker & Van de Vegt, 1974.
- Physical Description
- 24 pp.
- Description
- Comments on disparities between the narratives and the morals applied to them in SumT, ManT, FranT, ClT, and MLT, exploring the Chaucer's incongruities and indirections. There are no "monolithic" morals to be found in BD, HF, or PF, which tend toward parody, and TC concludes with a "mock-moral" in its final stanzas.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale
- Manciple and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Clerk and His Tale
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Book of the Duchess
- House of Fame
- Parliament of Fowls
- Troilus and Criseyde