Middle English Romance: The Structure of Genre

Author / Editor
Burlin, Robert B.

Title
Middle English Romance: The Structure of Genre

Published
Chaucer Review 30 (1995): 1-14.

Description
Burlin proposes a structuralist model for the medieval romance, adopting a Saussurean paradigm of intersecting axes: the "paradigmatic axis furnished with the test and courtly codes and the syntagmatic axis with the quest and the test." Includes discussions of TC and KnT.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Knight and His Tale.