Vision, Logic, and the Comic Production of Reality in the Merchant's Tale and Two French Fabliaux

Author / Editor
Kohler, Michelle.

Title
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.