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.
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