Chaucer's Narrators

by David A. Lawton

Book Overview

The book begins with a brief prefatory discussion of its relation to structuralist and post-structuralist criticism. The first chapter, Apocryphal Voices', surveys the basis of modern critical approaches to persona and irony' in Chaucer's poetry, and suggests that such approaches are better suited to unequivocally written contexts. A systematic hesitation between a wholly written and a wholly spoken context requires critical distinctions between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859912175
• ISBN13: 9780859912174
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"