Allusion in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson Lee, Jr.
Allusion in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 28.10 (1968): 4118A.
- Description
- Investigates the "plurality of meaning" in a number of Biblical and classical allusions in MerT, comments on sources, and discusses the setting of the Tale and the names of its characters, arguing that the cultural context of the Tale is a major aspect of its mode of meaning. Includes comparison of Chaucer's and Dante's allusive techniques
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations