Dialogical Reading and the Biblical-Creed Narrative Prayers in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Author / Editor
Dor, Juliette.

Title
Dialogical Reading and the Biblical-Creed Narrative Prayers in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Published
Robert Clark and Piero Boitani, eds. English Studies in Transition: Papers from the ESSE Inaugural Conference (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 107-19.

Description
Custance's earnest belief in a Christian deity is reflected in her prayers, while the narrator of MLT presents these prayers in the context of his own skeptical rhetorical questions. The tension between the two establishes the dialogic polyphony of the tale.

Contributor
Clark, Robert, ed.
Boitani, Piero, ed.

Alternative Title
English Studies in Transition: Papers from the ESSE Inaugural Conference.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.