Canterbury Tales: Telling of Cultural Identities
Canterbury Tales: Telling of Cultural Identities

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on aspects such as: the interaction text, context, reader; cultural identities of readers; identity of text; linguistic identity/ identities of characters; authority; the act of reading; all of them, in a process of continuous reconstructing if/and when observed from the height of the 21st century – an age when the crossing of borders (be they literal or metaphorical) makes full use of semiotic tools and strategies. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, written at the crossroads of changing mentalities, attitudes and styles, offers an illustrative example of what moving across territories that might belong to or might be written by or read by (an)other(s) means. Telling of pilgrims (author, invented character or real being, reader; or, in other words, producer, object and consumer) and their tales turns into an act of weaving a text whose warps and wefts create the design of multiple cultural identities.

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