Allusion in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.

Author / Editor
Brown, Emerson Lee, Jr.

Title
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