Chaucer's Narrative Typology on the 'General Prologue' to the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Sato, Tsutomu.

Title
Chaucer's Narrative Typology on the 'General Prologue' to the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Dokkyo Gaigaku Eigo Kenkyu 41 (1993): 10-39.

Description
Analyzes the rhetorical shift between the third-person presentational voice of the first eighteen lines of GP and the following first-person voice of the involved narrator. The passage exploits a new paradigm of narration and validates the theories of Saussure and Genette. In Japanese, with English abstract.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.