Between Precedent and Possibility: Liminality, Historicity, and Narrative in Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale

Author / Editor
Nowlin, Steele.

Title
Between Precedent and Possibility: Liminality, Historicity, and Narrative in Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale

Published
Studies in Philology 103 (2006): 47-67.

Description
Nowlin contends that FranT "offers an interpretation of the forces that shape the ability to imagine beyond exempla." Draws on Victor Turner's notions of liminality to discuss the concern with genre as frame in FranT, which shows how frames of reference give way to new ideas and possibilities.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.