Tales of Canterbury: Fictions Within a Fiction That Purports Not to Be a Fiction

Author / Editor
Owen, Charles A.,Jr.

Title
Tales of Canterbury: Fictions Within a Fiction That Purports Not to Be a Fiction

Published
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 179-94.

Description
Portraying himself as a participant in a supposedly actual pilgrimage, Chaucer freed his characters from his control and avoided predetermining the meaning of their tales.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.