Chaucerian 'Game'-'Earnest' and the 'Argument of Herbergage' in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Joseph, Gerhard.
Chaucerian 'Game'-'Earnest' and the 'Argument of Herbergage' in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 5.2 (1970): 83-96.
- Description
- Explores in CT the dynamic between with expansive spaces and narrow ones, especially as they correlate with views of the world that are variously serious or playful. Considers the intertextuality of KnT and the fabliaux of Part 1 of CT as a paradigm of this dynamic and comments on how it is evident elsewhere in the poem, particularly in the pilgrimage itself. Paradoxically, Chaucer seems to indicate that the opposed principles "are inseparable in the human condition."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Knight and His Tale
- Miller and His Tale
- Reeve and His Tale