Vision, Logic, and the Comic Production of Reality in the Merchant's Tale and Two French Fabliaux
- Author / Editor
- Kohler, Michelle.
Vision, Logic, and the Comic Production of Reality in the Merchant's Tale and Two French Fabliaux
- Published
- Chaucer Review 39 (2004): 137-50
- Description
- In MerT and two French fabliaux ("Les perdris" and "Le prestre qui abevete"), the "victims' justifiably skeptical search for visual proof" paradoxically results in deceptive "visual confirmation." Examining how this process takes place may elucidate both "the force of language" in the works and "the absurdity that is central to their humor."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.