La Narrativa del Medioeve Inglese

Description: Trans. Joan Krakover Hall as "English Medieval Narrative in the 13th and 14th Centuries" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).; The earliest Middle English narratives, e.g., exempla in sermons, served practical purposes. More deliberately artistic ends can be seen in later collections of legends, exempla, and comic tales; Chaucer and Gower are even more aesthetically sophisticated.; Most non-Chaucerian Middle English narratives were intended for recitation (here critical concepts of Auerbach, Bakhtin,Contini, Curtius, Frye, Genette, and the Russian formalists are applied to religious tradition, romance, dream poems, etc.), but Chaucer was the first English author to write consciously for a reading public. BD, HF, PF, TC, LGW, and CT draw innovatively upon written tradition.

Alternative Title: English Medieval Narrative in the 13th and 14th Centuries.