Taking Stock of Middle English Popular Romance

Author / Editor
Gaffney, Paul Douglas.

Title
Taking Stock of Middle English Popular Romance

Published
DAI A69.04 (2008): n.p.

Description
Contrasts WBT to popular romance narratives of the period, arguing that notions of "sentence"--i.e., of "meaning that is inscribed into a narrative by its author"--force high cultural glossing onto popular texts that may not be best suited to such glosses.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale