附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index.
The Question of Genre: The Canterbury Tales as Dantean Epic -- Allegory: The Canterbury Tales and Dantean Allegory (Geryon and the Nun's Priest's Tale) -- Epic Theater: The Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (The Knight and the Miller) -- Chaucerian Intertextuality: The Monk's Tale and the Inferno -- The Friar and the Summoner: Chaucerian Contrapasso -- The Clerk's Tale: A Chaucerian "Poetics of Conversion" -- The Merchant's Tale: Allegory in the Mirror of Marriage.