Inducing the Hole: Paratactic Structure and the Unwritten Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Lindley, Arthur.
Inducing the Hole: Paratactic Structure and the Unwritten Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Robert J. C. Young, Ban Kah Choon, and Robbie B. H. Goh, eds. The Silent Word: Textual Meaning and the Unwritten. (Singapore: University of Singapore and Word Scientific, 1998), pp. 103-18.
- Description
- Argues that gaps and "narratorial subversions" make Chaucer's works (and much of medieval aesthetic theory) "postmodern," comparing them with the definition of postmodernism by Ihab Hassan.
- Unreliable signs and indeterminate language compel Chaucer's audience to produce meaning.
- Lindley discusses the Pardoner's sexuality, the sketch of the Prioress, WBP, and Ret.
- Contributor
- Young, Robert J. C.,
- Choon, Ban Kah,
- Goh, Robbie B. H.,ed.
- ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Silent Word: Textual Meaning and the Unwritten.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Chaucer's Retraction.