Bringing Frames into Focus: Reading Middle English Literature.
- Author/Editor
- Stoyanoff, Jeffery G.
- Title
- Bringing Frames into Focus: Reading Middle English Literature.
- Published
- Stoyanoff, Jeffery G. Bringing Frames into Focus: Reading Middle English Literature. Ph.D. Dissertation. Duquesne University, 2015. viii, 163 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A77/01(E). Fully accessible via https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/ and via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.
- Review
- In his dissertation, Stoyanoff exemplifies how Middle English writers use "generically-situated framing devices to play with readers’ expectations and to open up their texts for a number of possible interpretations" (iv). He focuses on three types of framing device to show how they "control the presentation of the text while implicitly recognizing that such ornamentation cannot, ultimately, control interpretation": "the circular frame in John Gower’s compilation, 'Confessio Amantis'; the episodic, memory-based frame of contemplative writing in Margery Kempe’s 'Book'; and the narratorial frame accomplished through narratorial tags in 'The Romaunce of Sir Beves of Hamtoun" (v). For a published a version of Stoyanoff's discussion of Gower's "frame," see his "Beginnings and Endings: Narrative Framing in 'Confessio Amantis'." South Atlantic Review 79.3-4 (2015), pp. 52-64.
- Date
- 2015
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification