Partitioned Fictions: The Meaning and Importance of Walls in Chaucer's Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Lynch, Kathryn L.
Partitioned Fictions: The Meaning and Importance of Walls in Chaucer's Poetry
- Published
- Robert R. Edwards, ed. Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 107-25.
- Description
- From the dream visions through CT, Chaucer never abandoned his fascination with walls and "enclosed fictions." On the one hand, walls function metaphorically, representing such forces as the rise and fall of civilization. On the other, they create enclosed spaces corresponding to the enclosed fictions, or tales within tales, that define the structure and meaning of Chaucer's later works. Lynch examines KnT, ManT, LGW, and TC.
- Alternative Title
- Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Manciple and His Tale.