Medieval Narrative : An Introduction
- Author / Editor
- Davenport, Tony.
Medieval Narrative : An Introduction
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Physical Description
- x, 305 pp.
- Description
- Davenport describes several categories of medieval narrative, focusing on English literature, particularly Chaucer. Discusses didactic narratives (exempla and fables), historical accounts (chronicle, epic, romance), comic tales (fabliaux and novella), fantasies (otherworldly voyages and dream visions), tragedies, and compilations, as well as prologues and narrative personae.
- Assesses the development of each category out of classical and vernacular traditions and into late medieval England, commenting on how medieval notions of narrative helped shape later views. Pays sustained attention to CT and TC, with recurrent comments on Chaucer's other works and a wide range of other medieval stories.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Troilus and Criseyde.