Narration and Doctrine in the Merchant's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
Narration and Doctrine in the Merchant's Tale
- Published
- Speculum 66 (1991): 342-67.
- Description
- Although the Merchant's voice and attitudes are cynical and misogynistic, the "marriage encomium, Justinus's speeches, and the episode of Pluto and Proserpine" counter them. Tensions between the narrator and the material of MerT represent "competing views of marriage and interrogate social reality."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.