The Pilgrim's Carnivalesque: The Textual Chaucer and the Negation of Narration in "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Wright, Joshua C.

Title
The Pilgrim's Carnivalesque: The Textual Chaucer and the Negation of Narration in "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
Neophilologus 107 (2023): 301-0.

Description
Reads Th through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the carnivalesque as a dismantling of the religious and moral authority established by PrT in order to reassert the carnivalesque as the organizing principle of CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Sir Thopas
Prioress and Her Tale