The Ends of Storytelling.
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Helen.
The Ends of Storytelling.
- Published
- Russell A. Peck and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower: Others and The Self (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017), pp. 91-107.
- Description
- Finds "ideas of mortality, the end of life, and the end of storytelling . . . closely linked" in Gower's "Confessio Amantis." Argues that the work leads the narrator, the poet, and the audience to a conclusion in which all "can share in his hope of joy on the other side of the apocalypse, the end of the world, the end of story." Reflects how this shared understanding and vision are presented in CT, especially in GP, KnT, ParsT, and Ret.
- Alternative Title
- John Gower: Others and The Self
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Canterbury Tales--General