The Structure of Irony in "The Summoner's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Adams, John F.
The Structure of Irony in "The Summoner's Tale."
- Published
- Essays in Criticism 12 (1962): 126-32.
- Description
- Identifies ways that word-play, echoic details, and thematic patterning contribute to the "dramatic" irony in SumT whereby the friar's hypocritical glossing is revealed and insulted without overt glossing by the narrator.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale
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