Structural Irony within the "Summoner's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Birney, Earle.
Structural Irony within the "Summoner's Tale."
- Published
- Anglia 78 (1960): 204-18.
- Description
- Examines "ironic foreshadowings, ambiguities and reversals" in SumT, arguing that they give it "a subtle and satisfying unity." Focuses on overturned expectations, dramatic ironies, and poetic justice in the plot, in the friar's lecture to Thomas, and the squire's solution to the problem of the wheel.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale
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