Some Generic Distinctions in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Strohm, Paul.

Title
Some Generic Distinctions in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Modern Philology 68 (1971): 321-28.

Description
Explores Chaucer's uses of narrative terms, such as "storie," "tale," "fable," "tretys," "tragedye," "legend," etc.," focusing on their relative degrees of exposition, fictionality, and historicity and the faithfulness of the narratives to source material.

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