Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": Aesthetic Design in Stories of the First Day.
- Author / Editor
- Owen, Charles A., Jr.
Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": Aesthetic Design in Stories of the First Day.
- Published
- English Studies 35 (1954): 49-56.
- Description
- Articulates a number of parallels and contrasts among the tellers and tales of KnT, MilT, RvT, and CkT, focusing on character, accident versus fate, intention, and paradox. Emphasizing the Knight's "chivalric idealism" and the "strong earthiness" of the other tellers, examines how mirroring patterns within their tales "accentuate the contrast in the ideals and characters of the pilgrims."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale
Cook and His Tale
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