Narrator's Point of View in the Portrait-sketches, Prologue to the "Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Duncan, Edgar Hill.

Title
Narrator's Point of View in the Portrait-sketches, Prologue to the "Canterbury Tales."

Published
Essays in Honor of Walter Clyde Curry (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1954), pp. 77-101.

Description
Explores the "free-ranging points of view" of the narrator of GP, identifying its conventionality modeled on the "Roman de la Rose" and arguing that Chaucer's various manipulations of first-person and omniscient perspectives in individual descriptions generally convey the "complex nature of actuality."

Alternative Title
Essays in Honor of Walter Clyde Curry

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations