"The Miller's Tale" and the Art of "Solaas."

Author / Editor
Nolan, Maura.

Title
"The Miller's Tale" and the Art of "Solaas."

Published
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 73-88.

Description
Offers a "step by step" reading of MilT "as it unfolds its argument.: Focuses on the crafting of the fabliau that refers to common elements of the genre and to Chaucer’s specific context. Argues that the "artful carelessness of the Miller" is an "ideal" that the Reeve demonstrates cannot be maintained.

Alternative Title
Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale