Chaucer's Narrative Pose: The Formative Phase.

Author / Editor
Burger, Douglas A.

Title
Chaucer's Narrative Pose: The Formative Phase.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.02 (1967): 619A.

Description
Studies Chaucer's narrative personae in BD and PF, identifying several traits that become "regular marks" of his later self-characterizations: a bookish reteller who interjects personal comments, "comic self-depreciation," and ambiguous "fascination" with love but without personal involvement.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls