Convention and Innovation: Two Essays on Style in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Grossman, Judith S.

Title
Convention and Innovation: Two Essays on Style in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
DAI 29.08 (1969): 2709A.

Description
Treats KnT as a traditional, conservative work, elevated in tone and style and dependent on "French and Italian traditions of eloquence." Conversely GP is the "most original of Chaucer's poems," innovative in its "mingling" of "praise and blame" within individual portraits and enriched by the "ironic alternation of opposed traditions of representation."

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Knight and His Tale
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations