Hateful Contraries in "The Merchant's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Fyler, John M.
Hateful Contraries in "The Merchant's Tale."
- Published
- Critical Survey 30.2 (2018): 20-50.
- Description
- Argues that the narrator in MerT "augments the malignity of the tale itself by debunking all idealism and mocking its naiveté, but in his blindness and rhetorical ineptitude points to a sordid reality that he fails to gloss over." Yet, the tale reveals a "psychologically healthy middle ground outside the experience of the narrator or his characters, where body and soul, real and ideal, experience and innocence meet."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale