Dorigen as Enigma: The Production of Meaning in the Franklin's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Greenberg, Nina Manasan.
Dorigen as Enigma: The Production of Meaning in the Franklin's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 33: 329-49, 1999.
- Description
- The riddle at the end of FranT-who is the most "fre"?-distracts the reader from the central issues of the Tale, namely the concept of the "Real" (Pierre Macherey) and questions of gender. Although Dorigen is apparently excluded from the answer to the riddle, her presence speaks loudly throughout. She is the catalyst of the story, and her words contain the power to "sleen" or "save."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.