Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Lawlor, John.
Chaucer.
- Published
- London: Hutchinson University Library, 1968.
- Physical Description
- 181 pp.
- Description
- Treats Chaucer's major narrative poems as "oral script(s)" presented to a "small and courtly audience," offering sustained readings that reflect the poems' tensions between authority and experience (or "pref") and address concerns of poetic freedom and human freedom. Each of the frames of the dream poems sets its narrative persona against traditional material in profound and comic ways simultaneously. TC transforms Boccaccio's "Filostrato" to emphasize the narrator's submission to poetic tradition and the characters' struggles with social conventions. LGW lays clear the gaps between poetic theory, poetic practice, and audience responses. CT poses variations on human and poetic struggles to deal with constraining forces. The volume attends recurrently to differences between the factors involved in shaping medieval and modern responses to experiencing and understanding Chaucer's narrative poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Pareliament of Fowls
Legend of Good Women
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General