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Ca R terbury Tales: Romances of Disenchantment in Geoffrey Chaucer and Angela Carter Nicoletta Pireddu The Comparatist, Volume 21, May 1997, pp. 117-148 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0022 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/413185/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 10:00 GMT from JHU Libraries THE COMPAKATIST CANTERBURY TALES: ROMANCES OF DISENCHANTMENT IN GEOFFREY CHAUCER AND ANGELA CARTER Nicoletta Pireddu To associate romance with the iUusion-breaking strategy of post- modernism may at first seem paradoxical, yet, in fact, romance is being increasingly taken as the privileged mode, staging the hybridity and openness of contemporary critical discourse. Associated with excess, im- purity, and self-difference, romance shares the aesthetic and poUtical agenda of postmodern Uterature and theory: through textual dispersion and playfulness, it provides a counternarrative to the project of knowl- edge as deployment of authority and conquest of certainty.1 Beyond periodization and formal categories, romance can thus indicate a state, a certain attitude towards the cultural and historical heritage and its representation which is at work whenever a straightforward quest for meaning in fact becomes questioning of meaning—whenever, instead of offering a pleasurable escape to a freer world, narrative crosses the con- ceptual
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