The Autobiographical Fallacy in Chaucer and Langland Studies.
- Author / Editor
- Kane, George.
The Autobiographical Fallacy in Chaucer and Langland Studies.
- Published
- London: Lewis, 1965.
- Physical Description
- 20 pp.
- Description
- Rejects "unsupported biographical inference" about the lives and personalities of Chaucer and William Langland, arguing that it is illogical to assume that the personae they project in their poetry are autobiographical. Conflation or confusion of the author with the "speaking person" in the work results from conventions of oral delivery and dream vision, and from the irony they produce.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Life
Style and Versification