The Poet as Pilgrim: The Narrator of the 'General Prologue'
- Author / Editor
- Gardiner, Alan.
The Poet as Pilgrim: The Narrator of the 'General Prologue'
- Published
- Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Harlow: Longman, 1989), pp. 19-27.
- Description
- Describes the narrator of the GP as "naìˆve but all-seeing," used variably by Chaucer to guide reader response and provoke unsettled reactions. Not wholly consistent, the narrator is a device that evokes "complex, contradictory attitudes" that seem to be shared by Chaucer himself.
- Alternative Title
- Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales