Chaucer and the Interpretation of Medieval Narrative: An Essay on the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Hackett, John P
Chaucer and the Interpretation of Medieval Narrative: An Essay on the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- DAI 33.03 (1972): 1169A.
- Description
- Surveys criticism of ClT in order to show the "inadequacy" of this criticism and reads the Tale as a "typological allegory" even though it goes steps beyond its sources in depicting the plot realistically.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations