The Ends of Storytelling

Author / Editor
Cooper, Helen.

Title
The Ends of Storytelling

Published
Charlotte Brewer and Barry Windeatt, eds. Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013), pp. 188-201.

Description
Addresses the importance of storytelling, and the "sheer power of narrative" in CT. In particular, argues that CT is "not an allegory," and that Chaucer plays with time by putting ParsT and Ret at the end, which reinforces the fact that "there is no time or space left for the storytelling to continue."

Alternative Title
Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Parson and His Tale
Chaucer's Retraction