The Development of the "Canterbury Tales"

Author / Editor
Owen, Charles A., Jr.

Title
The Development of the "Canterbury Tales"

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57.3 (1958): 449-76.

Description
Posits a "chronology of growth" for the CT, seeking "to follow the imagination of the poet and to recapture the dynamics of creation" evident in Chaucer's apparent changes in plan. Comments on earlier scholarly efforts to explain or understand inconsistencies and/or alterations in the tale-assignments, geographical and temporal details, and the number and sequence of tales and fragments, proposing a series of stages in Chaucer's compositional process.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General