The Ends of Storytelling
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Helen.
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