Of Poets and Prologues.
- Author / Editor
- Batkie, Stephanie L.
Of Poets and Prologues.
- Published
- Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (2018): 245-70.
- Description
- Assesses speech and silence in the characterizations and functions of the narrators of GP and the Prologue to "Piers Plowman." Both narrator-figures are introduced "through tropological silencing," but the "muted contact" of the GP narrator with the other pilgrims "ushers in negotiations of interpersonal interactions" and anticipates "questions of social order" and "communal identity" in CT, while the "unvoiced aurality" of Langland's narrator becomes "part of [his] poem's pervasive concern over what constitutes virtuous speaking" and poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations