Structure as Deconstruction : 'Chaucer and Estates Satire' in the 'General Prologue'
- Author / Editor
- Leicester, H. Marshall,Jr.
Structure as Deconstruction : 'Chaucer and Estates Satire' in the 'General Prologue'
- Published
- Exemplaria 2 (1990): 241-61.
- Description
- Chaucer's GP actively encourages the adoption of a "disenchanted perspective" on society, on the pilgrims, and on discourse itself by constructing traditional estates-satire classifications. The narrator successively adopts and then discards first a hierarchical and then an apocalyptic classification of the pilgrims, thus highlighting the tensions and contradictions constituting such classifications.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.