Chaucer's Pilgrimage Device of the Fabliau Tales.

Author / Editor
Hira, Toshinori.

Title
Chaucer's Pilgrimage Device of the Fabliau Tales.

Published
Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Humanities 18 (1978): 59-78.

Description
Considers the techniques of characterization in CT, with particular attention to the range of social classes and the assigning of fabliaux to particular tellers. Comments on the gender of individual tellers and on the likelihood of class and gender variety and hierarchy in his contemporary audience and in his works.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General