Petrarch, Chaucer and the Making of the Clerk
- Author / Editor
- Ginsberg, Warren.
Petrarch, Chaucer and the Making of the Clerk
- Published
- James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, and Sylvia Tomasch, eds. The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 125-41.
- Description
- Assesses how the Host's address to the Clerk reflects effort to shape the identity of the Clerk as a tale-teller, so that even before the Clerk speaks, literary, philosophical, and spiritual discourses compete to define his subjectivity.
- Alternative Title
- The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.