Dialogical Reading and the Biblical-Creed Narrative Prayers in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Dor, Juliette.
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.