The Language of Love in Chaucer's Miller's and Reeve's Tales and in the Old French Fabliaux.
- Author / Editor
- Stillwell, Gardiner.
The Language of Love in Chaucer's Miller's and Reeve's Tales and in the Old French Fabliaux.
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 54 (1955): 693-99. Rpt. in Studies by Members of the English Department, University of Illinois, in Memory of John Jay Parry. Essay Index Reprint Series. [Urbana]: University of Illinois Press, 1968, pp. 212-18.
- Description
- Identifies predecessors in Old French fabliaux for courtly details, diction, locutions, and situations in MilT and RvT, helping to create comic irony by contrast between "elegance and 'harlotrye.'"
- Alternative Title
- Studies by Members of the English Department, University of Illinois, in Memory of John Jay Parry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale