Lars Engle--'Chaucer, Bakhtin, and Griselda': A Response

Description: McClellan discusses the strengths of Engle's Bakhtinian analysis of ClT, particularly Engle's "very valuable insight about Griselda's dialogic re-envoicing of Walter's discourse." McClellan argues, however, that Engle gives no psychological analysis of Griselda's motivation, discusses very little the socio-ideological importance of her dialogic discourse, and overstates conclusions regarding the effects of Griselda's speeches.; A response to Lars Engle's "Bakhtin, Chaucer, and Anti-Essentialist Humanism." See also Engle's "Chaucer, Bakhtin, and Griselda," and McClellen's own "Bakhtin's Theory of Dialogic Discourse."