Relational Chaucer: Intersubjective Identity and Ricoeurian Narrative Hermeneutics.

Author / Editor
Leary, Amanda Elise.

Title
Relational Chaucer: Intersubjective Identity and Ricoeurian Narrative Hermeneutics.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. Purdue University, 2021.
Dissertation Abstracts International A85.01(E)

Description
Uses Paul Ricoeur's "theory of narrative identity" to explore various aspects of Chaucer's poetry, including issues of female agency in FranT, ClT, and TC; racialized narratives and white identity in CT; Chaucer's "talking-animal poetry"; and "poetic subjectivity" in his dream poems and in the Host's question to Chaucer as narrator, "What man artow?", in ThP.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General