The Interruption of the "Squire's Tale": The Disillusionment of Wonder in the "Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Matsuda, Takami.
The Interruption of the "Squire's Tale": The Disillusionment of Wonder in the "Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 44–59.
- Description
- Argues that the medieval notion of wonder helps to explain the Franklin's interruption of SqT.The Squire presents the marvels in his tale as explainable in scientific terms, in accord with the philosophical notion of wonder. The Franklin similarly intends to reframe romance marvels in scientific terms and does not want the Squire to forestall him. In Japanese.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale