ENGL 202 Lecture Notes - Carnivalesque, Frame Story, Geoffrey Chaucer
19 Feb 2014
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General prologue, the canterbury tales: the prologue"s framework for the canterbury tales. Introduces the various speakers of the tales: the main characters, who happen to meet at the tabard inn as pilgrims on their way to canterbury. The innkeeper, the host, devises the tale-telling scheme as entertainment for the journey. The best story-teller is to win a dinner at the inn after the journey. Each pilgrim is to tell 2 tales going to canterbury, 2 coming back, totalling about. Only 22 are complete, with 2 more in fragments. The criteria of judging the tales: tales of best sentence and most solas (ll. Chaucer"s narrative technique in the general prologue and canterbury tales. How many stand-ins for chaucer as narrator i. e. , narrative voices are there in the. The canterbury tales as narrative tour de force: the structure enables inclusion of a great variety of narrative styles, genres, and projected voices.
