The Ends of Romance in Chaucer and Malory.
- Author / Editor
- Ingham, Patricia Clare.
The Ends of Romance in Chaucer and Malory.
- Published
- Roberta L. Krueger, ed. The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 211-27.
- Description
- Argues that, in select romances, Chaucer confronts "serious matters"--political, social, ethical, and aesthetic--and experiments with the range and flexibility of the genre, comparing KnT and WBT as metacritical romances that interrogate their own idealizations, and Th and SqT (also metacritical) as self-conscious experiments, concerned with the "limitations and liabilities of romance patternings." Malory's "experimental originality," on the other hand, lies in his consolidation and unification of diverse romance materials.
- Alternative Title
- The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Knight and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Squire and His Tale
Tale of Sir Thopas