'Nothing That Is So Is So': Dialogic Discourse and the Voice of the Woman in the Clerk's Tale and Twelfth Night
- Author / Editor
- Booker, M. Keith.
'Nothing That Is So Is So': Dialogic Discourse and the Voice of the Woman in the Clerk's Tale and Twelfth Night
- Published
- Exemplaria 3 (1991): 519-37.
- Description
- Explores the possibilities for a "woman's language" through Bakhtinian theories of discourse. Through dialogic, double-voiced discourse, Chaucer's Griselda and Shakespeare's Viola each break into and subvert the dominant patriarchal discourse in which they are inscribed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.