Drama, Theatricality and Performance: Radicals of Presentation in The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Ganim, John M.
Drama, Theatricality and Performance: Radicals of Presentation in The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 70-82.
- Description
- CT accommodates apparently conflicting forms of address and confusions of narrative, dramatic, and expository genres. Chaucer manipulates a number of Northrup Frye's "radicals of presentation," allowing perpetual reinterpretation through the overlay of what had usually been considered quite distinct radicals of presentation.
- Alternative Title
- Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales-General.