The Mirror in the Marketplace: Januarie Through the Looking Glass
- Author / Editor
- Lucas, Angela M.
The Mirror in the Marketplace: Januarie Through the Looking Glass
- Published
- Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 123-45.
- Description
- January's comparison of looking for a bride to reflections in a mirror evokes associations of limited and distorted vision, of two-dimensional representations, and of reversals of left and right. This image of "imperfect vision" is reflected in January's own blindness and in his misperception of May in MerT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.