The Consequences of 'Treuth': Reading Two Versions of the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- McClellan, William.
The Consequences of 'Treuth': Reading Two Versions of the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Genre 25 (1992): 153-78.
- Description
- The "presentational features" of MS HM 140 (prose format, absence of ClP, reduction of multivoiced discourse) transform its "mode of signification from performance to textuality," suggesting history and truth. This presentation radically alters the "message(s)" of ClT, which elsewhere suggests that women "are in the vanguard of the struggle for equity in earthly institutions."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.