Hunter and Prey: Functional Imagery in Chaucer's "Friar's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Richardson, Janette.
Hunter and Prey: Functional Imagery in Chaucer's "Friar's Tale."
- Published
- English Miscellany 12 (1961): 9-20.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's use of conventional hunter and prey images in FrT "serves an organic function within the aesthetic whole of the work.” Rather than "functioning as mere decoration" it reinforces and deepens "the comic irony both inherent and explicit within the framework of the story."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale
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