The Genre of Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale": A Reappraisal.

Author / Editor
Sternberg, Irma Ottenheimer.

Title
The Genre of Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale": A Reappraisal.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 25.12 (1964): A5392.

Description
Argues that MLT is neither saints' legend nor romance, but that its "heroic theme, setting, and characters suggest strongly that . . . it belongs to the literary genre of epic and to the sociological genre of myth."

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale