Two Kinds of Anxiety in the "Canterbury Tales": A Study of the Host and Framing Narrative.
- Author / Editor
- Hadbawnik, David.
Two Kinds of Anxiety in the "Canterbury Tales": A Study of the Host and Framing Narrative.
- Published
- In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.
- Physical Description
- [16 pp.]
- Description
- Uses visualization software (the "network analysis software Gephi") to represent the interactions among the pilgrims in the links between tales in CT, focusing on the importance of the Host and his "twin anxieties"—concern with haste and with narrative form—characterizing him as a "blustering fool . . . who yet aspires to and wields a certain kind of power" in his efforts to hurry things along and direct emphasis on teaching and entertaining. Charts in a series of diagrams the Host's importance to the social network of the CT. Designed for pedagogical use, includes several questions for discussion.
- Alternative Title
- The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General