Chaucer's "An Impossible" ("Summoner's Tale" III,2231).
- Author / Editor
- Pearcy, Roy J.
Chaucer's "An Impossible" ("Summoner's Tale" III,2231).
- Published
- Notes and Queries 212 (1967): 322-25.
- Description
- Explains the use of "impossible" as a noun in SumT 3.2231, discussing the term as a label for classroom examples of logical sophistry and commenting on Chaucer's familiarity with such academic practice.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Summoner and His Tale
Chaucer's Life