Chaucerian Romance?
- Author / Editor
- Jordan, Robert M.
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