A Comparative Study of Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" & Attar's "The Conference of the Birds."

Author / Editor
Khoshbakht, Maryam, Moussa Ahmadian, and Shahrukh Hekmat.

Title
A Comparative Study of Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" & Attar's "The Conference of the Birds."

Published
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 2.1 (2013): 90-97.

Description
Compares CT with Farid al- Din Attar's "The Conference of the Birds," observing similarities in the shared motif of spiritual journey and techniques of narration and characterization. Differences between the religious backgrounds of the two poets, however, are evident in their thematic emphases.

Contributor
Ahmadian, Moussa.
Hekmat, Shahrukh.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations