Expressing the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Davis, Isabel.
Expressing the Middle Ages
- Published
- Literature Compass 6 (2009): 842-63.
- Description
- Davis assesses late medieval, first-person narration in English literature as a rhetorical and allegorical device and as an autobiographical stance. She comments on the influence of Augustine and Boethius and explores a range of Middle English authors, including Chaucer, particularly his "diminution of the narrator" in CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.