What's in a Frame? The Medieval Textualization of Traditional Storytelling
- Author / Editor
- Irwin, Bonnie D.
What's in a Frame? The Medieval Textualization of Traditional Storytelling
- Published
- Oral Tradition 10 (1995): 27-53.
- Description
- Describes the frame tale as a device of an "oral/literate continuum" that enabled medieval authors to draw on both traditions and to produce a flexible form.
- Authors such as Chaucer in CT and Boccaccio in "Decameron" capitalize on the open-ended potential of oral and literate rhetorical forms, their competing time frames, and their variety of narrator-audience dynamics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.