Chaucer's frame tales
Subtitle: the physical and the metaphysical
By: Joerg O. Fichte (ed.).
Contributors: Fichte, Jörg O.
Series: Tübinger Beiträge zur Anglistik ;; 9
Publisher: G. Narr; D.S. Brewer
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Tübingen; Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Technique.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.; Frame-stories -- History and criticism.; Storytelling in literature.; Rhetoric, Medieval.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: The origins of comicality in Chaucer / Willi Erzgräber; value: Versions of comedy in Chaucer's Canterbury tales / Derek Pearsall; value: Chaucer's Shipman's tale within the context of the French fabliaux tradition / Joerg O. Fichte; value: The Reeve's tale / Derek Brewer; value: His desir wol fle withouten wynges : Mary and love in fourteenth-century poetry / Piero Boitani; value: The story-teller and his audience : the legend of good women / Dieter Mehl.