'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 GeĢrard 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