Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England

Abstract

CONTENTS: Introduction: Absent narratives and the textual culture of the late Middle Ages The wanting words of Sir Gawain and the green knight Remembering Canacee, forgetting incest: reading the "Squire's tale" Chaucer's family romance: the "Knight's tale" as primal scene "Hic quasi in persona aliorum": the lover's repression and Gower's Confessio amantis The death of the Arthur Conclusion: The agency of Medieval narrative.