String Theory and "The Man of Law's Tale": Where Is Constancy?"

Author / Editor
Quinn, William A.

Title
String Theory and "The Man of Law's Tale": Where Is Constancy?"

Published
Critical Survey 29.3 (2017): 48-64.

Description
The Ptolemaic universe of MLT should have a still center, but neither this Tale nor the CT as a whole seems to reflect "a single interpretive order." Thematic and tonal threads pull in different directions, as if the Tale harbored an anticipation of today's highly speculative "string theory," which "admits the possibility of a multiverse in which numerous concurrent realities (of reader-responses) can coexist."

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Canterbury Tales--General