The Alienated Protagonist: Some Effects of Generic Interaction in Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Little, Frances.
The Alienated Protagonist: Some Effects of Generic Interaction in Middle English Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 3358A-3359A.
- Description
- Protagonist and narrative are usually aligned in medieval literature, but the protagonist is alienated from the narrative when his or her ethos conflicts with generic context, as in Chaucer's TC and CYT and in works of Malory and Hoccleve, among others.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.