The "Clerk's Tale": The Monsters and the Critics.
- Author / Editor
- Sledd, James.
The "Clerk's Tale": The Monsters and the Critics.
- Published
- Modern Philology 51, no. 2 (1953): 73–82.
- Description
- Critiques earlier opinions on ClT, finding them to be flawed by imposition of irrelevant standards and failure to treat the tale's success in evoking "compassionate wonder." Explores the developments of characterization in the tale and a growing sense of marvel in its three parts, with attention to the role of its scriptural echoes in this "secular saint's legend" and its development of sentimentality and "comfortable pathos."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations