The Popularity of the 'Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Bratcher, James T., and Nicholai von Kreisler.

Title
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