Re-Reading Allegory: The 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Krieger, Elliot.
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.