Chaucer's Prudent Poetics: Allegory, the 'Tale of Melibee,' and the Frame Narrative to the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Yeager, Stephen.

Title
Chaucer's Prudent Poetics: Allegory, the 'Tale of Melibee,' and the Frame Narrative to the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
ChauR 48.03 (2014): 307-21.

Description
Reviews Prudence's "allegorical reading practices" and argues that Mel is based on the "relationship between the literary mode of moralizing allegory and contingent reading practices."

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Melibee