Frame and Fictive Voice in Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale' and Kipling's 'The King's Ankus'
- Author / Editor
- Thum, D. Maureen.
Frame and Fictive Voice in Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale' and Kipling's 'The King's Ankus'
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 71 (1992): 261-79.
- Description
- Using the same folkloric motif as exemplum, Chaucer and Kipling conflate it with other motifs to form a new configuration; both embed the narrative in a series of fictive frames and modify it by commentary of multiple fictive voices. A comparative approach enhances our appreciation of Chaucer's narrative strategies and illustrates a complexity and depth not previously recognized in Kipling.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.