Margaret Atwood and Chaucer: Truth and Lies.

Author / Editor
Clements, Pamela.

Title
Margaret Atwood and Chaucer: Truth and Lies.

Physical Description
Richard Utz and Elizabeth Emery, eds. Makers of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of William Calin (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 2011), pp. 55-59.

Description
Identifies parallels between CT and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale," found particularly in the fictional "Historical Notes" that follow the main text of the novel. Notes the echo of Chaucer in Atwood's title and a single reference to Chaucer in her work, but focuses on textual complexity and "the problem of language as a vehicle for meaning" in both texts.

Contributor
Utz, Richard, ed.
Emery, Elizabeth, ed.

Alternative Title
Makers of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of William Calin.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General