What Is a Narrator? Narrator Theory and Medieval Narratives.

Author / Editor
Spearing, A. C.

Title
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