The Paratactic Structure in the "Canterbury Tales": Two Antecedents of the Modern Short Story
- Author / Editor
- López Santos, Antonio.
The Paratactic Structure in the "Canterbury Tales": Two Antecedents of the Modern Short Story
- Published
- Viorica Patea, ed. Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First Century Perspective. DQR Studies in English, no. 49 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012), pp. 25-48.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's innovations in CT "announce the ulterior evolution of the modern short story," focusing on NPT and WBPT as "unequivocal precursors" to the modern genre in their techniques of representing time, space, characters, and narrators, and in the openness of their endings
- Contributor
- Viorica Patea, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First Century Perspective.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale