Discourse and the Problem of Closure in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Grudin, Michaela Paasche
Discourse and the Problem of Closure in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- PMLA 107 (1992): 1157-67.
- Description
- CT "shows a surprising array" of ways in which Chaucer "ignores, skirts, transcends, or even anticipates structural closure," engaging his readers in the "dialogic processes of discourse itself." Surveys techniques of openendedness in CT, arguing that they result fom Chaucer's imitations of oral tradition and that they suggest we read the work as a "drama of the reception of discourse" and an assertion of an open epistemology.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.