Chaucer's Reticent Merchant
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Karla.
Chaucer's Reticent Merchant
- Published
- James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 189-205.
- Description
- Reticence shapes the relations between narrator and audience in the Merchant's portrait in GP, where the importance of the unexpressed first surfaces, and in MerT. The rhetorical figure of reticence depends on the reader's cooperation.
- Alternative Title
- Idea of Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.