Re-Sounding Echo

Author / Editor
Dobbs, Elizabeth A.

Title
Re-Sounding Echo

Published
Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 289-310.

Description
Aurelius's comparison of himself to the nymph Echo early in FranT enables glimpses of Narcissus in Dorigen and emphasizes the importance of speech and interpretation in the Tale: in particular, Aurelius's Echo-like interpretations of Dorigen's speeches. Like Echo, Aurelius produces distorted versions of what he hears.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.