An Exploration of Medieval Poetic with Special Reference to Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Baltzell, Jane Lucile.
An Exploration of Medieval Poetic with Special Reference to Chaucer.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 26.08 (1966): 4622-23A.
- Description
- Explores the roots of medieval poetic theory in medieval rhetorical handbooks, and examines MilT, PrT, PhyT, MerT, and ClT) for evidence that Chaucer was influenced by the "received medieval poetic," even though his "narrative procedure . . . may be said to transcend that theory."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Physician and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale