Chaucerian Romance?

Author / Editor
Jordan, Robert M.

Title
Chaucerian Romance?

Published
Yale French Studies 51 (1974): 223-34.

Description
Assesses structural and stylistic features (rather than the subject matter) of medieval narratives classed as romance, analyzing the "compositional structure" of WBT, particularly its "inorganic" and "additive" incorporation of digressive materials. Also comments on TC, KnT, SqT, FranT, Thop, and works by Chretién de Troyes.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Knight and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale
Tale of Sir Thopas
Style and Versification