Chaucerian Realism

Author / Editor
Bloomfield, Morton W.

Title
Chaucerian Realism

Published
Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 179-93.

Description
This updated version of Bloomfield's 1964 essay "Authenticating Realism and the Realism of Chaucer" discusses "authenticating frames" in Chaucer: the dream frame of BD, the historical frame of TC, and the social frame of CT, which "gives us a strong sense and feel of contemporary English life." The tension between the real and the unreal is central in CT.

Alternative Title
The Cambridge Chaucer Companion.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.