The Artifice of Temporality: A Study of Unfinishedness in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Stolz, Anne Crehan.
The Artifice of Temporality: A Study of Unfinishedness in Chaucer
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1979): 5498A.
- Description
- The signs of unfinishedness which appear most prominently in Chaucer's unfinished pieces are also present in the more finished pieces, where they make a major contribution to Chaucer's meaning. Chaucer's unfinishedness is due in part to the uses he found for incomplete or non-definitive statement and due in part to the aesthetic tradition he inherited.
- The richness of vision and the multiplicity of meaning which characterize his work are due in large part to the philosophical unfinishedness of his art.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.