Frames and Narrators in Chaucerian Poetry

Author / Editor
Phillips, Helen.

Title
Frames and Narrators in Chaucerian Poetry

Published
Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 71-97.

Description
Attempts to define fifteenth-century "Chaucerian poetry," commenting on the historical use of the term and positing several thematic and formal features, especially the "meta-fictive and self-reflexive virtuosity" that results from various kinds of framing techniques.

Alternative Title
The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.