Orality, Literacy, and Chaucer: a Study of Performance, Textual Authority, and Proverbs in the Major Poetry
- Author / Editor
- McKenna, Steven R.
Orality, Literacy, and Chaucer: a Study of Performance, Textual Authority, and Proverbs in the Major Poetry
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 3370A.
- Description
- Chaucer's poetry presents tensions between the authority of literature and that of traditional oral wisdom. In HF, the confused narrator cannot induce meaning; in TC, Troilus's mindset, Pandarus's and Criseyde's reliance on proverbs, and the narrator's insistence on his author's authority are in conflict; in CT, narrator and characters misinterpret one another. Readers become interpreters.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- House of Fame.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Troilus and Criseyde.