Echoes of Communal Response in the Tale of Melibee
- Author / Editor
- Foster, Michael.
Echoes of Communal Response in the Tale of Melibee
- Published
- Chaucer Review 42 (2008): 409-30.
- Description
- Through extensive use of "multiple dialogue introducers," Chaucer creates a "mimetic representation of speech" in Mel and thus invites a listening audience to be part of the fictional conversation and, beyond that, to emulate it by taking time to "pause, consider, and discuss before acting."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee
- Style and Versification