The Change in Chaucerian Aesthetics: From The "Tale of Sir Thopas" to "The Tale of Melibee."

Description: Argues that the shift from exaggerated romance to philosophical discourse between Th and Mel, the voicing of these tales by Chaucer as narrator, and the responses of the pilgrims to the two tales, indicate a general shift of "literary aesthetics" and, in terms derived from Stephen Greenblatt, "can be regarded as a reflection of Chaucer the poet's literary self-fashioning." Includes an abstract in Turkish and English.