Chaucer's Manciple: Voice and Genre

Author / Editor
Owen, Charles A (Jr.)

Title
Chaucer's Manciple: Voice and Genre

Published
Thomas Hahn and Alan Lupack, eds. Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 259-74.

Description
The autobiographical character of Chaucer-the-pilgrim's reportage and of the individual "Tales" in CT intensifies the nuanced contradictions of the Manciple's portrait in GP,of the competing voices in the lengthy ManP, and of the Manciple's aggressiveness and lack of assurance in his "Tale."

Alternative Title
Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.