Expressing the Middle English "I."
- Author / Editor
- Davis, Isabel.
Expressing the Middle English "I."
- Published
- Literature Compass 6.4 (2009): 842-63.
- Description
- Surveys uses of first-person narrative in late medieval English literary texts, agreeing with and extending earlier critics' arguments that find in this literature notions of selfhood often attributed to the early modern period. Observes how and where medieval subjectivity is distinguishable from modern autobiography and rooted in Christian and late Antique writing—Boethius and Augustine especially. Assesses generally comic effects of Chaucer's first-person voice in CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification