The Golden Ambiguity of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Haskell, Ann S.

Title
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