Chaucerian Fiction
- Author / Editor
- Burlin, Robert B.
Chaucerian Fiction
- Published
- Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
- Physical Description
- 294 pp.
- Description
- Chaucer's fictions show a logical development. The first are the "poetic fictions." In exploring the idea of authorial experience, the dream visions speculate on the poet's reaction to his audience and on the value of poetic activity. The second group consists of the "philosophic fictions." On the premise of authoritativeness, a narrative persona reshapes existing fiction to create desired meanings.
- The final group are the "psychological fictions." These employ many different narrators to explore the relation between the teller's psyche and the matter of his tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.