Two Kinds of Anxiety in the "Canterbury Tales": A Study of the Host and Framing Narrative.

Author / Editor
Hadbawnik, David.

Title
Two Kinds of Anxiety in the "Canterbury Tales": A Study of the Host and Framing Narrative.

Published
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.

Physical Description
[16 pp.]

Description
Uses visualization software (the "network analysis software Gephi") to represent the interactions among the pilgrims in the links between tales in CT, focusing on the importance of the Host and his "twin anxieties"—concern with haste and with narrative form—characterizing him as a "blustering fool . . . who yet aspires to and wields a certain kind of power" in his efforts to hurry things along and direct emphasis on teaching and entertaining. Charts in a series of diagrams the Host's importance to the social network of the CT. Designed for pedagogical use, includes several questions for discussion.

Alternative Title
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General