The Phenomenology of Frames in Chaucer, Dante and Boccaccio.
- Author / Editor
- Asay, Timoithy M.
The Phenomenology of Frames in Chaucer, Dante and Boccaccio.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon, 2014. Freely accessible at https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/18728; accessed November 22, 2022.
- Physical Description
- 427 pp.
- Description
- Argues that frame narratives make "language both a represented object and a representing agent" and "thus perfectly mimetic." Following both Dante and Boccaccio in using the device, Chaucer unsettles "easy assignations of identity" for his pilgrim-tellers in CT and thus "makes the temporality within his Tales strange and poignant in a way that fully mimics our own experience of extra-narrative time."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations