Shaping Absurdity in Medieval Romance: "Reductio ad absurdum" as Narrative Structure

Author / Editor
Smith, Ryan.

Title
Shaping Absurdity in Medieval Romance: "Reductio ad absurdum" as Narrative Structure

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. State University of New York at Buffalo, 2021.
Dissertation Abstracts International A82.12(E).

Description
Explores "reductio ad absurdum" in "theology and romance texts of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries," including discussion of Chaucer's uses of it as "a marker of generic resistance to chivalric romance" in KnT and ClT.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Knight and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale