Heteroglossia and Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale

Author / Editor
Jordan, Robert M.

Title
Heteroglossia and Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale

Published
Thomas J. Farrell, ed. Bakhtin and Medieval Voices (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995), pp. 81-93.

Description
Examines the "ideological markers" that indicate the various "languages" of MLT, arguing that they cannot be resolved into unity by recourse to a supposed personality of the teller.
MLT comprises several literary languages, and unlike the post-medieval novels examined by Mikhael Bakhtin, it does not include social or professional languages.

Alternative Title
Bakhtin and Medieval Voices.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.