'Telle us som myrie tale, by youre fey!': Exploring the Reading Transaction and Narrative Structure in Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Davis Todd F., and Kenneth Womack.

Title
'Telle us som myrie tale, by youre fey!': Exploring the Reading Transaction and Narrative Structure in Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory (New York: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 123-35.

Description
In in order to demonstrate the utility of reader-response criticism, Davis and Womack analyze ClT in light of Gérard Genette's theory of narratology and TC, Linda Hutcheon's theory of parody. In ClT, Chaucer controls tempo and reaction through structure; TC parodies Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato," particularly through the depictions of the main characters.

Contributor
Womack, Kenneth
Davis Todd F., and Kenneth Womack, ed.

Alternative Title
Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Clerk and His Tale