‘Ysworn… Withoute gilt:’ Lais of Illusion-Making Language in the Canterbury Tales
This essay argues that Chaucer’s interest in the Breton lay rests on the power of the genre’s association of magic and language. Examining the Wife of Bath’s Tale, a story that shares features with the Breton lay but is not marked as such, with the Franklin’s Tale, a marked Breton lay that has its s...
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2014-04-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/230 |
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