Beowulf and Chaucer's Walter: Memory and the Continuity of Compulsion
- Author / Editor
- Tripp, Raymond P.,Jr.
Beowulf and Chaucer's Walter: Memory and the Continuity of Compulsion
- Published
- Geardagum 9 (1988):59-74.
- Description
- Both Beowulf and Chaucer's Walter in ClT are "compulsive." Beowulf is obsessed with his heroic powers; Walter, with testing his wife. Walter is seen as a "monster," his treatment of his wife as inhuman.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale