The Ends of Fiction: Narrative Boundaries and Chaucer's Attitude Toward Courtly Love

Author / Editor
Davis, Adam Brooke.

Title
The Ends of Fiction: Narrative Boundaries and Chaucer's Attitude Toward Courtly Love

Published
Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 54-66.

Description
In TC, as in CT, Chaucer plays with genre, first postulating it and then blurring the reader's expectations of what it will do. Readers are forced to question the value of "Art as an interpreter of Life."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Troilus and Criseyde.