In Search of Chaucer: The Needed Narrative
- Author / Editor
- Brookhouse, Christopher.
In Search of Chaucer: The Needed Narrative
- Published
- Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 67-80.
- Description
- Appreciative comments on BD, HF, TC, and CT, addressing their concerns with death, isolation, knowledge of self, and above all, the hman need for self-disclosure in confronting these concerns. The human need for narrative is particularly evident in CT (KnT, Mel, WBPT, PardP, and CYT).
- Alternative Title
- Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- House of Fame
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Knight and His Tale
- Tale of Melibee
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale