Revisiting Chaucer: From "The Canterbury Tales" to "Refugee Tales."

Author / Editor
Nowak, Helge.

Title
Revisiting Chaucer: From "The Canterbury Tales" to "Refugee Tales."

Published
Renate Bauer, Christine Elsweiler, Ulrike Krischke, and Kerstin Majewski, eds. Travelling Texts--Texts Travelling (Munich: Utzverlag GmbH, 2023), pp. 401-15.

Description
Describes the political and aesthetic motives that underlie the four volumes of David Herd and Anna Pincus's "Refugee Tales" (2016–21), exploring their modeling on the variety, unity, and thematic concerns of Chaucer's panoramic short fiction in CT. Includes a tally of various kinds of intertextuality between the two collections.

Alternative Title
Travelling Texts--Texts Travelling

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General