The Complex Personality of Chaucer's Reeve and the Problems of Subjectivity Represented in His "Tale."

Author / Editor
Kudo, Yoshinobu.

Title
The Complex Personality of Chaucer's Reeve and the Problems of Subjectivity Represented in His "Tale."

Published
Geibun-Kenkyu (Keio University) 102 (2012): 287-306.

Description
Argues that the Reeve's efforts to represent himself as respectable are mirrored in the characterization of Symkin in RvT, and Malyne's "repressed subjectivity" reveals Symkin's over-simplified, patristic notions self-definition.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale