Imagery, Structure, and Theme in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Wentersdorf, Karl P.

Title
Imagery, Structure, and Theme in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'

Published
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 35-62.

Description
The complex meanings of the pear tree are achieved by means of a pervasive ironic technique whereby material with favorable connotations is introduced only to be qualified and undercut at a later stage. Treats biblical and classical sources, lust, and marriage.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.