The Trader's Time and Narrative Time in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Blandeau, Agnès.

Title
The Trader's Time and Narrative Time in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Published
BAM 72 (2007): 21-29.

Description
Late fourteenth-century traders' time of profit-making synchronizes with narrative time in Chaucer's tales, enabling the poet to articulate the relationship between time as physically experienced and Christian time, both linear and cyclical.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.