The Social Determination of Narrative Performance in Three Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Kempton, Daniel Robert.
The Social Determination of Narrative Performance in Three Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 273A-74A.
- Description
- The Manciple, Physician, and Clerk strain the notion of fictive propriety with their stories. They exploit the storytelling occasion by attempting to come to terms with their estates and the often oppressive audience through replicating conditions of social tension in a fictive environment.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Physician and His Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.