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Chaucer's Narrators (Hardcover)
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Chaucer's Narrators (Hardcover)
Series: Chaucer Studies
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The book begins with a brief prefatory discussion of its relation
to structuralist and post-structuralist criticism. The first
chapter, Apocryphal Voices', surveys the basis of modern critical
approaches to l>personal> and irony' in Chaucer's poetry, and
suggests that such approaches are better suited to unequivocally
written contexts. A systematic hesitation between a wholly written
and a wholly spoken context requires critical distinctions between
types of l>persona/l>, and a number of distinctions in the
range between l>persona/l> and voice. Morality in its
Context' examines the Pardoner and his tale and argues against a
dramatic' view of the tale itself, while the third chapter,
'Chaucer's Development of l>Persona/l>', is a study of
possible sources for Chaucer's handling of the narratorial '1',
looking at the English l>disour/l>', the French l>dits
amoureux/l>', Italian and Latin sources of influence, and the
l>Roman de la Rose/l>. The last two chapters apply the
principles outlined so far to l>Troilus/l> and l>The
Canterbury Tales/l>, with a particular examination of the
literary history of the Squire's tale to show that modern interest
in dramatic l>persona/l> has obscured many other important
issues and leads to drastic misreading. This is a challenging and
lucid work which questions many of the received attitudes of recent
Chaucer criticism, and offers a reasoned and approachable
alternative view.
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