Metafiction and Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Jordan, Robert (M.)
Metafiction and Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 135-55.
- Description
- Contrasts TC and ManT as examples of metafiction, showing that in each the narrative persona is not a character in any traditional sense but a voicing of the author's concerns with language and fiction. ManT overtly declares the instability of language, whereas the narratorial interventions of TC, including the ending, destabilize the plot, directing attention from story to storytelling.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Manciple and His Tale.