And I seyde his opinion was good: How Irony Works in the Monk's Portrait

Author / Editor
Chickering, Howell.

Title
And I seyde his opinion was good: How Irony Works in the Monk's Portrait

Published
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 3-18.

Description
Close reading of the GP description of the Monk shows how a "complex interaction of the reader with Chaucer's text" produces a more satisfactory reading than does the positing of a naive narrator.

Alternative Title
Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.