Capability and Negative Capability in Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Schaum, Melita.
Capability and Negative Capability in Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Aligarch Critical Miscellany 1 (1988): 1-13.
- Description
- In modern reader reception, ClT produces either "Paduan" pity for Griselda or "Veronese" disbelief in woman so virtuous. Schaum examines the "negative capability" needed in reader response because of the character of the GP Clerk, the manner of telling the tale, and the narrator's and Chaucer's own ambivalance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.