The "Anticlaudian" and Three Passages in the "Franklin’s Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Donovan, Mortimer J.
The "Anticlaudian" and Three Passages in the "Franklin’s Tale."
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 56 (1957): 52-59.
- Description
- Considers possible sources and analogues for three passages in FranT (5.721-25, 829-34, and 1113-15), explaining how diction, style, and rhetoric indicate the likely influence of Alanus de Insulis's "Anticlaudianus" (Alain de Lille's "Anticlaudian") and help to explicate the passages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification