'Chaucerian Realist': A Study of Mimesis in the Canterbury Pilgrimage
- Author / Editor
- Shilkett, Carol Lee.
'Chaucerian Realist': A Study of Mimesis in the Canterbury Pilgrimage
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. Michigan State University, 1972. DAI 33.09 (1973): 5141A. Accessible via https://d.lib.msu.edu/search?q=shilkett (accessed April 12, 2026).
- Physical Description
- iii, 257 pp.
- Description
- Considers Chaucer's realism, seeking to define it "inductively" through close reading of GP, the links between the tales, and the "confessional monologues" of CT. Focuses on concrete descriptions, dialogue, and "haphazard organization and juxtaposition" as devices.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Style and Versification