The Book of Duchess: Burgeoning of Chaucer as a New Storyteller

• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: 이동춘(Lee Dong choon)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제33집, 201~222쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.02.28

영문 초록

Chaucer's story-telling techniques, employed in the basic plot of a popular tale, demand the audience's intellect and imagination in ferreting out meaning or what might be seen as genuine authorial intention. Chaucer's eschewing of an authorial role as an absolute guide to meaning and his encouraging of a reader's cooperation in filling in the narrative halfway narrated or in making a judgment in the unsettling moments are frequently observed in The Book of Duchess. The Book of Duchess serves as the testing ground for Chaucer's later writings, especially, the Canterbury Tales, in the light of tale and tale-telling. The Book of Duchess is extraordinarily indirect in its style of conveying its meaning to a reader, because of its poetic structure characteristic of postponement and dilation. Such structural qualities that mark the Book of Duchess as most truly Chaucer's anticipate the direction of his creations as whole. Together with Chaucer's devious, roundabout approach to the theme of the tale by employing the delicate framework, the combination of "heterogeneous elements" or "opposites" is the storytelling method that serves as the rationale for his poem. In The Book of Duchess, these strategies. causing the effect of indeterminacy and semantic openendedness, are closely related to the audience's critical and active response.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. The Tradition of English Popular Narratives

Ⅲ. Chaucerian Narrative Stylistics: the Structural Qualities

Ⅳ. Narrative Voices and Readership

Ⅴ. Conclusion

Works Cited

Abstract

키워드

『공작부인의 서』 내러티브 전략 독자반응 작가관 시적구조 The Book of Duchess narrative strategies reader's response authorship poetic structure