Chaucer's Narrators and Audiences : Self-Deprecating Discourse in Book of the Duchess and House of Fame
- Author / Editor
- Foster, Michael.
Chaucer's Narrators and Audiences : Self-Deprecating Discourse in Book of the Duchess and House of Fame
- Published
- Janne Skaffari et al., eds. Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005), pp. 199-213.
- Series
- Pragmatics and Beyond, n.s., no. 134.
- Description
- Chaucer constructed a self-deprecating narrator in BD and in HF in response to audience expectations. These constructions, in turn, shaped how people in Chaucer's own society regarded Chaucer and how his personality has been recorded historically.
- Contributor
- Skaffari, Janne, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Chaucer's Life.