The Introspective and Egocentric Quests of Character and Audience: Modes of Self-Definition in the York Corpus Christi Cycle and in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Haman, Mark Stefan.
The Introspective and Egocentric Quests of Character and Audience: Modes of Self-Definition in the York Corpus Christi Cycle and in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1982): 4444A.
- Description
- Certain fourteenth-century works (the York plays, "Confessio Amantis," "Piers Plowman," CYT) function by placing inadequate characters in crisis situations. The audience learns from their limited reactions. Most complex is MerT: the narrator's distorted vision clashes with January's "conversion" to force readers into thoughtful response.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.