Noise, Terminus, and Circuitus: Performing Voices in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Kia-Choong, Kevin Teo.

Title
Noise, Terminus, and Circuitus: Performing Voices in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Published
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. "The Canterbury Tales" Revisited--21st Century Interpretations (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 314-33.

Description
The "polyphonic assemblage of voices" in CT "displaces the teleological-topographical narrative" of movement toward the heavenly city of God. The Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and the Miller, in particular, embody noise and represent the vox populi that resists official culture.

Alternative Title
"Canterbury Tales" Revisited-21st Century Interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Miller and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Pardoner and His Tale