Contradictions and Self-Contradictions in Chaucer's Poetic Strategy
- Author / Editor
- Pelen, Marc M.
Contradictions and Self-Contradictions in Chaucer's Poetic Strategy
- Published
- Florilegium 10 (1991, for 1988): 107-25.
- Description
- Can one reconcile in a "single poetic focus" the contradictory voices of MerT? Plato, Claudian, Boethius, and especially Ovid distinguish between true and false fictions on the basis of whether legend is used to recognize cosmological order or to promote experiential desires. This perspective,evoked by allusion in MerT, indicates that all the voices of MerT are insufficient, trivializing the spiritual function of marriage.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.