The Psychological Realism of Fictional Characters
- Author / Editor
- Walker, Denis.
The Psychological Realism of Fictional Characters
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 86 (1985): 337-42.
- Description
- Recent studies have attributed psychological realism to CT characters. This "old critical ghost" unfortunately diverts the "critic from his (or her) proper task, the analysis of the functioning of verbal constructs constituting the text, to fruitless speculation about the unknown and unknowable psychosexual history of fictional characters."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.