The Hazard of Narration: Frame-Tale Technologies and the "Oriental Tale."

Author / Editor
Mallette, Karen.

Title
The Hazard of Narration: Frame-Tale Technologies and the "Oriental Tale."

Published
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James nSimpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 184-96.

Description
Discusses the framed narratives and their progression throughout the Mediterranean, emphasizing framed tales, especially in Italian, that "present narration as a high-stakes wager that may save a population in peril." By examining this Italian tradition in relation to Chaucer's works, shows that this "narrative environment . . . provides a context in which his own literary decisions may be better understood and appreciated."

Alternative Title
Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations