Beginning Well: Framing Fictions in Late Middle English Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Davidoff, Judith M.
Beginning Well: Framing Fictions in Late Middle English Poetry
- Published
- Rutherford, N.J.; Madison, Wis.; and Teaneck, N.J.:
- London and Toronto: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press;
- Associated University Presses, 1988.
- Physical Description
- 242 pp.
- Description
- Basing her work on a study of 189 poems, Davidoff analyzes common features of "framing fictions." With attention to Chaucer's sources and literary tradition, she offers readings of BD, demonstrating relationship of meaning to structure; of HF, showing how reader expectations are frustrated; of FrT, focusing on dramatic irony; and of GP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Friar and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.