'Making Strange': The Narrator (?), the Ending (?), and Chaucer's 'Troilus'

Author / Editor
Evans, Murray J.

Title
'Making Strange': The Narrator (?), the Ending (?), and Chaucer's 'Troilus'

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 87 (1986): 218-28.

Description
An "ideological approach" to TC demands the appropriation of discordant elements by a single dominant principle; a rhetorical analysis of the ending of TC, when combined with structuralist categories, suggests that Chaucer engaged in a multiple defamiliarization. This invites active, interpretative response from the audience, rather than simple assent or passive reception.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.