Chaucer's Frame Tales: The Physical and the MetaphysicalJörg O. Fichte Boydell & Brewer, 1987 - 154 pages Studies principally concerned with the nature and source of Chaucerian comedy: 'There is much to profit by here. 'STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Derek Pearsall | 35 |
Joerg O Fichte | 51 |
Derek Brewer | 67 |
Piero Boitani | 83 |
Dieter Mehl | 129 |
Common terms and phrases
Absalon action asks audience beatific vision Beatrice behaviour Brewer Cambridge Canterbury Canterbury Tales Canto Canzoniere Cecilia celebrated character Chaucerian comedy Cleopatra concept context courtly love criticism culture Dante Dante's Prayer divine eagle elogium Empyrean English Erzgräber eternal experience fabliau finally French function Geoffrey Chaucer God's grace Heaven herte hire human husband Incarnation invocation irony laugh laughter Laura Legend literature lovers lyrical Mary Mary's means medieval Merchant's miller Miller's Tale moral narrative narrator narrator's nature norms Pandarus Paradiso XXXIII Parliament of Fowls pattern peripety Petrarch pilgrim plot poem poet poet's poetry present Prioress's prologue reader Reeve's Tale satire says Second Nun's Tale seems sexual shal Shipman's Tale social St Bernard stanza Stierle's story structure Thow thyng tion traditional Troilus and Criseyde truth turns Vergine bella Virgin Wife of Bath women