May in the Marketplace: Commodification and Textuality in the Merchant's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Sheridan, Christian.
May in the Marketplace: Commodification and Textuality in the Merchant's Tale
- Published
- Studies in Philology 102.1 (2005): 27-44.
- Description
- Discusses how readers of MerT are encouraged to view all texts in mercantile terms and how texts (medieval texts in particular) are formed in the interactions among reader, author, and language. Both a product (a text to be consumed) and a producer (retelling the events in the pear tree), May exemplifies how characters are made into commodities.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.