Noise, Terminus, and Circuitus: Performing Voices in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Kia-Choong, Kevin Teo.
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