tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132258260849081357.post3752872331891936412..comments2023-03-23T10:17:50.232-04:00Comments on Mony wylsum way: Musings on the Canterbury Tales and double-narrationHannah Kilpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750010843246514032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132258260849081357.post-65240054588251817272009-02-03T16:19:00.000-05:002009-02-03T16:19:00.000-05:00Both at once, of course, is usually the only possi...Both at once, of course, is usually the only possible answer when it comes to Chaucer!<BR/><BR/>If you want to look at it from a moralistic point of view, the moral power of a tale is greater the more the audience can identify with both the characters and the genre, so making something that's entirely a parody with no heart to engage people wouldn't serve him so well. <BR/><BR/>But I think my Hannah Kilpatrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06750010843246514032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132258260849081357.post-82505650590832461782009-02-03T09:01:00.000-05:002009-02-03T09:01:00.000-05:00But if the audience is meant to take the story-tel...But if the audience is meant to take the story-tellers seriously, and Chaucer is at the same time sending them up, wouldn't that mean that he was also mocking his audience? Or perhaps only some of them... I wonder if a concept of layered audience might serve you better here than layered narrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com