Chaucer and His Narrators: The Poet's Place in His Poems
- Author / Editor
- Donner, Morton.
Chaucer and His Narrators: The Poet's Place in His Poems
- Published
- Western Humanities Review 27 (1973): 189-95.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer adapts his first-person narrators throughout his career in order to explore aspects of the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity. Chaucer achieves a greatest sense of objectivity when his subjective narrator is most apparent. Considers BD, HF, PF, TC, and CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- House of Fame
- Parliament of Fowls
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Canterbury Tales--General