'Ye get namoore of me': Narrative, Textual, and Linguistic Desires in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
McDonie, R. Jacob.

Title
'Ye get namoore of me': Narrative, Textual, and Linguistic Desires in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'

Published
Exemplaria 24 (2012): 313-41.

Description
Argues that genre and the discourses of desire in MerT prove too strong for the narrator, who is constantly conflicted about his presentation not only of linguistic and narrative desires but also of the psychoanalytic displacements of these desires.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale