The Meaning of Structure in Chaucerian Narrative
- Author / Editor
- Graham, Paul Trees.
The Meaning of Structure in Chaucerian Narrative
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation, University fio Missouri atn Colimbia, 1979. Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1980). Fully accessible via https://mospace.umsystem.edu/items/0fa7a2a8-75b5-4f6a-ba12-245f194f3626 (accessed April 12, 2026)
- Physical Description
- 321 pp.
- Description
- The categorical proposition, or sentence, is offered as a global model for narrative structure. The sentence structure, which makes meaning by suggesting the significant similarities between what might have been and what is actually said, takes the topos as its place for drawing the story into line with tradition and for drawing out the important differences between tradition and a particular performance.
- In KnT, the oppositions which threaten perpetual violence and despair are reduced in the paradigmatic perspective to opposites in alternation rather than in tension. In NPT, the mechanical intelligence of a beast-like man is the theme and the basis, in part, of its humor. In BD, the difference between memory and present fact is thematic and the auditor is forced to face grief directly.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Book of the Duchess.