The 'General Prologue' as Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Moseley, Charles.
The 'General Prologue' as Prologue
- Published
- Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Harlow: Longman, 1989), pp. 105-18.
- Description
- Surveys the narrative techniques of the GP as they set up and anticipate those of the entire CT: the suggestiveness of pilgrimage and frame narrative, the impressionistic variety of the pilgrims and their juxtapositions, the naìˆve but subjective narrative persona and his reliance on memory, the emphasis on chance, disorderliness, and varieties of love.
- Alternative Title
- Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Canterbury Tales--General