Reading the 'Canterbury Tales': The Example of Chaucer's Clerk
- Author / Editor
- Goodwin, Amy Wright.
Reading the 'Canterbury Tales': The Example of Chaucer's Clerk
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 533A.
- Description
- Analyzes how GP and the dramatic links in CT affect reader interest and narrative. Suggests that the Clerk misreads allegory for mimesis and critiques Petrachan poetics and the narrowness of the moral, exemplary tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Clerk and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.