An Interpretation of the "Clerk's Tale" According to Mediaeval Literary Theory: Based on a Study of Sources and Analogues.
- Author / Editor
- Landrum, Graham Gordon.
An Interpretation of the "Clerk's Tale" According to Mediaeval Literary Theory: Based on a Study of Sources and Analogues.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. Princeton University, 1954. Dissertation Abstracts. 14.03 (1954): 1725.
- Description
- Identifies concerns with patience and marriage in sources and analogues of ClT, and explores the status of these concerns in medieval scriptural commentaries. Argues that ClT presents a clearly orthodox view of marriage which underlies the Clerk's rejection of the Wife's unorthodoxy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Wife of Bath and Her Tale