Chaucer's "General Prologue": A Study in Tradition and the Individual Talent.

Author / Editor
Adams, George Roy.

Title
Chaucer's "General Prologue": A Study in Tradition and the Individual Talent.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 22.07 (1962): 2382.

Description
Examines Chaucer's use of first-person narration, "traditional themes," "rhetorical principles," and "artistic structure" in GP, exploring the pilgrimage and spring motifs, the chain of being, and connections between this chain, the serial descriptions, and "duality" of the views of love represented by the Knight and the Parson in CT.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales