'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.

Title
'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.