Religious 'in itinere' Frame Stories: Roles in Sercambi's 'Novelle' and Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Rodríguez Mesa, José Francisco.

Title
Religious 'in itinere' Frame Stories: Roles in Sercambi's 'Novelle' and Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo and Eugenio Contreras Domingo, eds. Focus on Old and Middle English Studies (Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2011), pp. 159-73.

Description
Studies Sercambi's "Novelle" and CT against the background of historical writing, and classical and medieval traditions of "narratio brevis," including the oriental models, in particular the frame stories "in itinere." Analyzes features of short stories from the perspective of the Sociocritic School, which sees them as a subversion of the macro-story of religious pilgrimage and the morals and religion of the late fourteenth century.

Alternative Title
Focus on Old and Middle English Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations