Chaucer's Narrators
- Author / Editor
- Lawton, David.
Chaucer's Narrators
- Published
- Cambridge:
- Cambridge and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D. S. Brewer,
- Boydell & Brewer, 1985;
- 1986.
- Series
- Chaucer Studies, no. 13.
- Description
- Aware of the insights into author-audience relationship provided for "written" texts by structuralism and poststructuralism, Lawton concentrates on oral aspects in Chaucer. Emphasizing the complexity of tone in interacting voices, Lawton studies PardP, PardT, SqT, PF, LGW, BD, TC, and CT.
- He challenges dramatic and psychological interpretations that see tales as extensions of the GP portraits and examines Chaucer's sources and influences (especially "Roman de la Rose") for models for his tonal plurality. Traces developments in the narrator's voice from dream visions to CT. In BD, the dreamer rather than the Black Knight undergoes psychological change. Studies the critical reception of SqT; rejects the TC narrator as a character in the poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.