Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory.
- Author / Editor
- Gerber, Amanda J.
Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory.
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 163 pp.
- Description
- Explores the political motivations of Ovid's "frame narratives" and how they appealed to and influenced medieval writers. For a chapter on Chaucer see Chapter 4, "Clerical Expansion and Narrative Diminution in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales."
- Alternative Title
- Clerical Expansion and Narrative Diminution in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations