Chaucer's Slow-Motion Camera--And What It Does to the Fabliau
- Author / Editor
- Diller, Hans-Jurgen.
Chaucer's Slow-Motion Camera--And What It Does to the Fabliau
- Published
- Elmar Lehmann and Bernd Lenz, eds. Telling Stories: Studies in Honour of Ulrich Broich on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: B. B. Gruner, 1992), pp.1-16.
- Description
- By confining his version almost entirely to observable details, Chaucer achieves more in MilT than do writers of analogous stories. He does not interpose his narrator between the reader and the narrated events, and he spares the reader the glib moralizing found in so many of the analogues. Thus, the reader experiences the duped lover's shock and humiliation more vivdly in Milt and perceives the human drama contained in the sexual encounters.
- Alternative Title
- Telling Stories: Studies in Honour of Ulrich Broich on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.