Strategies of Poetic Narrative: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Eliot
- Author / Editor
- Kinney, Clare Regan.
Strategies of Poetic Narrative: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Eliot
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Physical Description
- xi, 261 pp.
- Description
- Addresses the features of poetic narrative that are distinct from prose narrative, concentrating on self-consciousness about poetic form, intertextual relations, and authentication. An introduction and separate chapters consider TC, The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and The Waste Land. All of these works reflect interest in transcendant endings and evince some resistence to closure; resulting tensions correlate with the formal tensions between poetry and narrative. For the chapter on "Dilation, Design, and Didacticism in Troilus and Criseyde," search for Strategies of Poetic Narrative under Alternative Title.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.