Knowing the Tropes: Literary Exegesis and Chaucer's Clerk

Author / Editor
Knapp, Peggy A.

Title
Knowing the Tropes: Literary Exegesis and Chaucer's Clerk

Published
Criticism 27 (1985): 331-45.

Description
Interpretations of ClT that rely on the genre exemplum are often subverted through trope irony.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.