Chaucer's narrators and audiences
Self-deprecating discourse in Book of the Duchess and House of Fame
- Author(s): Michael Foster
- Source: Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past , pp 199-213
- Publication Date March 2005
Chaucer's narrator-persona has been a central theme in Chaucerian scholarship; the persona has traditionally been seen as a mask behind which the poet hides. Within this essay it is argued that the narrators of theBook of the DuchessandHouse of Fameare a type of social mask, and that by rhetorically employing and manipulating the social dynamic between himself and his real-world audience, Chaucer produces a narrator figure which will influence how his contemporary audience would perceive the poet outside the fictional world of the text.
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