Chaucer's "Summoner’s Tale" and the Logic of Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Perry, R. D.
Chaucer's "Summoner’s Tale" and the Logic of Literature.
- Published
- Poetics Today 41.1 (2020): 37-57.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer uses philosophical language in describing the fart joke of SumT in order to burlesque the "logical thinking" of scholastic thinkers, particularly the Merton Calculators, showing how literature can "more effectively" work out problems than can logic.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale