Labour and Time.
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, Kellie.
Labour and Time.
- Published
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 63-80.
- Description
- Argues that labor is a controlling characteristic of GP, by first introducing background material about the importance of work and the shortage of labor in the fourteenth century. Demonstrates that "Chaucer's narrative technique in the 'General Prologue' . . . is created not through psychological or emotional depth but through a polytemporal reckoning of an individual pilgrim's works--past, present, and (sometimes) future."
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales