What Is a Narrator? Narrator Theory and Medieval Narratives.
- Author / Editor
- Spearing, A. C.
What Is a Narrator? Narrator Theory and Medieval Narratives.
- Published
- Digital Philology 4.1 (2015): 59-105.
- Description
- Questions the "narrator theory of narration," critiquing the "concept of the internal, potentially unreliable narrator"; examining "the history of the term narrator"; studying "the theories of narration implied by scribal annotations in some medieval manuscripts" (including manuscripts of TC); and challenging narrator-based (or "dramatic") readings of PhyT, suggesting that the Tale should be read as "one of Chaucer's several thought-experiments in the exploration of pagan worlds."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Troilus and Criseyde