Chaucer and Reason

Author / Editor
Bloomfield, Morton W.

Title
Chaucer and Reason

Published
Unisa English Studies 11 (1973): 1-3.

Description
Claims that Chaucer is a "rationalistic" poet, and suggests prospects for assessing Chaucer's use of dialectic or the "scholastic mode of reasoning" in his art, commenting on aspects of GP, ParsT, Mel, WBPT, Bo, TC, and HF.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Parson and His Tale
Tale of Melibee
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Boece
Troilus and Criseyde
House of Fame