Fiction and Game in "The Canterbury Tales."

Description: Explores the strategies and effects of Chaucer's self-aware affirmations in CT of the work's "status as fiction," commenting on the first-person narrator's functions (in contrast with those in Dante) and tracing the ironies generated by tensions between fictionality and moralization, describing Chaucer as the "first of a long line of ironical satirists" that includes Rabelais, Cervantes, and Sterne, more like the Pardoner in effecting morality than like the Parson in proclaiming it.

Chaucer Subjects: Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification
Pardoner and His Tale
Parson and His Tale