The Miller's Tale--An UnBoethian Interpretation
- Author / Editor
- Bloomfield, Morton W.
The Miller's Tale--An UnBoethian Interpretation
- Published
- Jerome Mandel and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds. Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis Lee Utley (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970), pp. 205-11.
- Description
- Contends that MilT differs from both KnT and RvT in its presentation of a world that lacks rational order or poetic justice. Alison escapes punishment and John is punished unfairly so that behind the jollity and illusion of order in the MilT lies "essential disorder."
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis Lee Utley.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale
- Reeve and His Tale