Chaucer, Bakhtin, and Griselda

Author / Editor
Engle, Lars.

Title
Chaucer, Bakhtin, and Griselda

Published
Exemplaria 1 (1989): 429-57.

Description
Chaucer exemplifies one of Mikhail Bakhtin's important claims that laughter can engage and comment on human systems and can function as a form of social and intellectual critique. Engle briefly surveys Bakhtinian theory, suggests its power in describing the structure of CT, and ends with a detailed analysis of ClT in Bakhtinian terms.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.