The Limits of Human Knowledge and the Structure of Chaucer's General Prologue

Author / Editor
Cooney, Helen.

Title
The Limits of Human Knowledge and the Structure of Chaucer's General Prologue

Published
Studia Neophilologica 63 (1991): 147-59.

Description
Argues that social identity is fundamental to description of each pilgrim and determines how each is presented; examines how Chaucer presents himself in rhetorical terms, with particular reference to the "diminutio" of GP 745-48.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.