Between Ernest and Game: The Aesthetics of Knowing and Poetics of 'Witte' in William Langland's 'Piers Plowman' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Nelson, Sharity D.

Title
Between Ernest and Game: The Aesthetics of Knowing and Poetics of 'Witte' in William Langland's 'Piers Plowman' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
DAI A75.02 (2014): n.p.

Description
Argues that CT provides an aesthetic of irony and parody, where part of the pleasure of the experience entails ironic interpretation on the reader's part, thereby both entertaining and instructing.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General