The Comic in the Poetry of Chaucer: Congruence of 'Sentence' and 'Solaas'
- Author / Editor
- McCabe, John Donald.
The Comic in the Poetry of Chaucer: Congruence of 'Sentence' and 'Solaas'
- Published
- DAI 30.01 (1969): 285A.
- Description
- Argues that post-medieval notions of comedy obscure the relations between sense and sententiousness in Chaucer's poetry, explaining that Boethian, analogous thinking underlies Chaucer's art and that Hebraic and Graeco-Roman poetic traditions help to clarify how "sentence" and "solace" are interdependent in Chaucer's art.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations