The Limits of Human Knowledge and the Structure of Chaucer's General Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Cooney, Helen.
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.