Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer's Dante

Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales

Richard Neuse

Suggested citation:
Neuse, Richard. Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1f59n7bw/

Preface

1— Introduction
2— The Question of Genre: The Canterbury Tales as Dantean Epic
3— Allegory: The Canterbury Tales and Dantean Allegory (Geryon and the Nun's Priest's Tale)
4— Epic Theater: The Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (The Knight and the Miller)
5— Chaucerian Intertextuality: The Monk's Tale and the Inferno
6— The Friar and the Summoner: Chaucerian Contrapasso
7— The Clerk's Tale: A Chaucerian "Poetics of Conversion"
8— The Merchant's Tale: Allegory in the Mirror of Marriage

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