Chaucer's Quizzical Mode of Exemplfication

Author / Editor
Diekstra, F. N. M.

Title
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