This article discusses Chaucer’s perspective on the ideological structures that inform the writing of literary history. In the first verses of the Franklin’s Tale , Chaucer first engenders and then deconstructs an – implicit – teleological narrative of literary history that links questions of genre, orality and history only to deconstruct, in almost the same breath, that very narrative by poetic means. Chaucer’s act of historical deconstruction is compared with the self-conscious strategies of raising questions of literary history as they are already to be found in the type of early Middle English romance he parodies in Sir Thopas . As this article argues, it is through this form of poetic meditation on the problems of literary history that Chaucer establishes a sense of his own modernity.

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乔叟式的现代性：在《坎特伯雷故事集》中（解构）文学史


本文讨论了乔叟对影响文学史写作的意识形态结构的看法。在《富兰克林的故事》的前几节中，乔叟首先产生并解构了一种隐含的文学史目的论叙述，这种叙述将体裁、口头和历史问题联系起来，只是为了以几乎相同的口气通过诗意的方式解构这种叙述。乔叟的历史解构行为与提出文学史问题的自觉策略相提并论，因为它们已经在他在《托帕斯爵士》中模仿的早期中古英语浪漫主义类型中找到。正如本文所指出的，正是通过这种对文学史问题的诗意沉思，乔叟建立了他自己的现代性意识。