Chaucer's Parodies of Love

Author / Editor
Reiss, Edmund.

Title
Chaucer's Parodies of Love

Published
Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 27-44.

Description
Treats parody as a technique that expresses the inadequacies of a given topic but also evokes its ideals, exemplifying how Chaucer achieves this dual perspective in BD, PF, TC, and Part 1 of CT.

Alternative Title
Chaucer the Love Poet.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General