The Popularity of the 'Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Bratcher, James T., and Nicholai von Kreisler.
The Popularity of the 'Miller's Tale'
- Published
- Southern Folklore Quarterly 35 (1971): 325-35.
- Description
- Assesses narrative suspension and crossing motivations in MilT and three analogous U.S. version of the "misdirected-kiss and branding story," including two folktales and George Milburn's "Old John's Woman" (also titled "Julie"; 1956). Suggests that Chaucer's adept handling of narrative suspension (i.e., John in the tub) "accounts for the superiority" of MilT.
- Contributor
- Von Kreisler, Nicholai.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations