Nominalism and the Dynamics of the 'Clerk's Tale': 'Homo Viator' as Woman

Author / Editor
Kirk, Elizabeth D.

Title
Nominalism and the Dynamics of the 'Clerk's Tale': 'Homo Viator' as Woman

Published
C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 111-20.

Description
Although it is common to separate the religious message of ClT from the tale's portrayal of women and marriage, the two are "linked," with the juxtaposition of Griselda and Alison of Bath representing "opposite solutions to the problem of women's exclusion from the discourse of a male-dominated society."

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Religious Tales

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.