The Chronotopes of Monology in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Farrell, Thomas J.
The Chronotopes of Monology in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Published
- Thomas J. Farrell, ed. Bakhtin and Medieval Voices (Gainesville: University Press fo Florida, 1995), pp. 141-57.
- Description
- Assesses the utility of applying Bakhtinian analysis to Chaucer's works and examines the monologia of ClT in light of the "Tale's" intersections of "Ecclesiastes time" and figural time.
- The characters of ClT, especially Griselda, act in anticipation that providence will "compensate or balance the alternating times" of their lives; Chaucer modifies this "chronotope" with figural imagery.
- The Envoy to ClT reminds us that the various voices of CT are not in dialogue but juxtaposed, exemplifying Bakhtin's "First Stylistic Line" of the novel.
- Alternative Title
- Bakhtin and Medieval Voices.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.