Chaucer's Sense of an Ending
- Author / Editor
- Donnelly, Colleen.
Chaucer's Sense of an Ending
- Published
- Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 11 (1990): 19-32.
- Description
- Chaucer's "open-endedness" and "lack of an ending" relate to the fact that he was writing in a "time of crisis" (the Black Death, the corruption of the church). He sought to confront conditions of his time through pluralism, and his lack of closure reflects the instability of the era.
- Donnelly examines HF, BD, and PF in detail and comments on CT and TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Book of the Duchess.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Troilus and Criseyde.