Assertion of the Self in the Works of Chaucer

Author / Editor
Fisher, John H.

Title
Assertion of the Self in the Works of Chaucer

Published
Medieval Perspectives 4-5 (1989-90): 1-24.

Description
CT exhibits tension between the corporate nature of medieval society and the domestic impulses of an "inner-directed society," in which the emergence of the poet is an important aspect of assertion of the self. In GP, the narrator signals irony. Pilgrims are personalized by their intentions. The confessional mode is related for the search for individuality.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.