Expressing the Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Davis, Isabel.

Title
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.