Critical Approaches to the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Morse, Charlotte C.
Critical Approaches to the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990), no. 130), pp. 71-83.
- Description
- Between 1910 and 1952, attitudes toward ClT were overtly hostile. Since 1952, however, criticism has been "apologetic in nature," with teacher-critics constructing "Christian allegorical," philosophical, psychological, and political readings "to make the tale somehow acceptable."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Religious Tales
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.