Irony in Boccaccio's Decameron and in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Pelen, Marc M.
Irony in Boccaccio's Decameron and in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Published
- Forum for Modern Language Studies 27 (1991): 1-22.
- Description
- Just as the themes of liberality and magnificence are treated ironically in Decameron 10, particularly in the tale of Griselda (10.10), so ClT is as "poetically and morally suspect" as are WBT and FranT. Both poets use multiple narrators and traditional material (including Scripture) to expose "contradictory or competing half-truths," forcing the reader to think critically.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.