Re-Reading Allegory: The 'Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Krieger, Elliot.

Title
Re-Reading Allegory: The 'Clerk's Tale'

Published
Paunch 40-41 (1975): 116-35.

Description
Chaucer used allegory to create a teleological statement of ideal behavior as an apologia for the most repressive aspects of ruling-class dominance and male chauvinism of the world in which he lived, and which he depicted on the literal level of ClT.

Alternative Title
"Rereading Allegory: The 'Clerk's Tale'."

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.