Bakhtin's Theory of Dialogic Discourse, Medieval Rhetorical Theory, and the Multi-Voiced Structure of the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- McClellan, William.
Bakhtin's Theory of Dialogic Discourse, Medieval Rhetorical Theory, and the Multi-Voiced Structure of the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Exemplaria 1 (1989): 461-88.
- Description
- Reading ClT in its social and historical context is reason for employing Bakhtin's theoretical framework, since Bakhtin recognizes the complexity and riches of poetic discourse as connected to the diversity and complexity of socio-ideological discourse. A Bakhtinian approach to ClT shows how Chaucer's incorporated such issues as "sovereignty, the status of women, the uses of rhetoric, and the emergent new 'commune voice'."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.