'The Road Not Taken': Virtual Narratives in The Franklin's Tale

Author / Editor
Narinsky, Anna.

Title
'The Road Not Taken': Virtual Narratives in The Franklin's Tale

Published
Poetics Today 34.1-2 (2013): 53-118.

Description
Studies "virtual" narratives in FranT. Compares FranT to earlier lais of Marie de France and "Sir Orfeo." Suggests that Chaucer's "unrealized possibilities" mark a moment in the history of genre development when medieval lais begin to resemble modern psychological narratives.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale