Irony in Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Blanch, Robert J.
Irony in Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale."
- Published
- Lock Haven Review 8 (1966): 8-15.
- Description
- Demonstrates the presence of three kinds of irony in MerT: verbal irony in the Merchant's double entendres and introductory comments on marriage, rhetorical irony in the deflation of courtly ideals by means of distorted or exaggerated figures and devices, and dramatic irony in the audience's awareness of what January recurrently fails to perceive.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
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