The Myth of Philomela from Margaret Atwood to . . . Chaucer: Contexts and Theoretical Perspectives.

Published: Interferences litteraires / Literaire interferenties 17 (2015): 85-99. Available at http://www.interferenceslitteraires.be.

Description: Considers four frame-tale versions of the Philomela story--Margaret Atwood's "Nightingale" in "The Tent" (2006), George Pettie's in "A Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure" (1576), Chaucer's in LGW, and Gower's in "Confessio Amantis"--focusing on interactions among narrative point of view, frame structure, and metapoetics. Suggests that Chaucer's version may be seen as "a self-aware game with his readership, and . . . as Chaucer's ironic commentary on moralizing conceptions of literature." Includes an abstract in English and in French.

Chaucer Subjects: Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations