Aspects of Chaucer's Narratorial Self-Representation in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Riehle, Wolfgang.

Title
Aspects of Chaucer's Narratorial Self-Representation in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Published
Herbert Foltinek et al., eds. Tales and "Their Telling Difference": Zur Theorie und Geschichte der Narrativik, Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Franz K. Stanzel (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag, 1993), pp. 133-47.

Description
Two tales in CT define Chaucer's role as an "implied author" and reflect his double vocation as a poet and diplomat. Th is a "brilliant example of his mastery as a poet"; Mel expresses his "ideological premises," anticipating the closing of the Canterbury fiction and providing a means to assess other tellers and their characters.

Contributor
Foltinek, Herbert, ed.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Melibee.
Tale of Sir Thopas.