Chaucer's Divided "I": Narrative Voice and Performance Dynamics in Late Fourteenth-Century English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- McDuffie, Isaac
Chaucer's Divided "I": Narrative Voice and Performance Dynamics in Late Fourteenth-Century English Literature.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. Louisiana State University, 2017.
Freely accessible at https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/4182/; accessed February 5, 2025.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's works "reflect an increasing awareness of the fragility of the author's implied voice and the dangers of misprision in a listening reception," largely an effect of the rise of English as a written language and tensions between the reading of texts and their oral performances. Addresses BD, PF, HF, TC, and NPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde
Nun's Priest and His Tale