Chaucer's "Book of Genesis" in "The Canterbury Tales": The Biblical "Schema" of the First Fragment.

Author / Editor
Buermann, Theodore Barry.

Title
Chaucer's "Book of Genesis" in "The Canterbury Tales": The Biblical "Schema" of the First Fragment.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.12 (1968): 5009-10A.

Description
Shows how Biblical narratives underlie the CT, not only allusively but in narrative plots and figural schema, focusing on how materials from Genesis are present in GP (springtime creation), KnT (brotherly conflict similar to Cain and Abel), MilT (Noah's Flood), and RvT (destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha). Outlines Biblical schema elsewhere in CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Knight and His Tale
Miller and his Tale
Reeve and His Tale