The Narrative Techniques of Chaucer's Fabliaux.

Author / Editor
Symes, Ken Michael

Title
The Narrative Techniques of Chaucer's Fabliaux.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.09 (1968): 3650-51A.

Description
Examines point of view, presentation, plot, and characterization in ShT, MilT, RvT, SumT, and FrT, comparing and contrasting these techniques with those found in Old French fabliaux, and arguing that Chaucer supersedes his predecessors in complexity, characterization, and credibility.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Shipman and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale
Friar and Hi Tale