The Golden Ambiguity of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Haskell, Ann S.
The Golden Ambiguity of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Erasmus Review 1 (1971): 1-9.
- Description
- Argues that "linguistic irony which results from [an] extended pun on 'amor'" runs throughout CT, supported by the diction and imagery of gold. Spiritual love is associated recurrently with positive images of gold; earthly love, with negative ones.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Style and Versification