Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-275) and index.
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