'I kan nat seye': The Rhetoric of Narratorial Self-Consciousness in Chaucer, Especially in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Strauss, Jennifer.

Title
'I kan nat seye': The Rhetoric of Narratorial Self-Consciousness in Chaucer, Especially in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Published
AUMLA 69 (1988): 164-79.

Description
Outlines the expression of narratorial self-consciousness through various phrases such as "I kan nat seye" and through rhetorical usages such as "occupatio" and then analyzes its purposes in Chaucer's poems.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.