The Frame Is the Thing: Gower and Chaucer and Narrative Entente
- Author / Editor
- Bowers, Robert.
The Frame Is the Thing: Gower and Chaucer and Narrative Entente
- Published
- Geardagum 19 (1998): 31-39.
- Description
- Awareness of narratological levels helps us understand differences in intent in Gower and Chaucer. Comparison of Gower's "Tale of Florent" and Chaucer's WBT illustrates these differences. Overall, Gower has a purpose and achieves closure; Chaucer conceals his purpose and evades closure. With Ret, Chaucer "is just beginning what Gower has ended" (38).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Chaucer's Retraction.