"The gardyn is enclosed al aboute": The Inversion of Exclusivity in the "Merchant's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Zedolik, John.
"The gardyn is enclosed al aboute": The Inversion of Exclusivity in the "Merchant's Tale."
- Published
- Studies in Philology 112.3 (2015): 490-503.
- Description
- Treats control as a thematic device in MerT and in CT at large. January seeks to control May through literal enclosure, but is himself figuratively controlled by May and Damian, becoming a keeper kept. Conversely, the pilgrim narrator of CT relinquishes the closed form of the GP descriptions and gives control over to the other pilgrims, maintaining partial control by becoming a participant himself.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Canterbury Tales--General