A Woman in the Mind's Eye (and Not) : Narrators and Gazes in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and in Two Analogues
- Author / Editor
- Waugh, Robin.
A Woman in the Mind's Eye (and Not) : Narrators and Gazes in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and in Two Analogues
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 79: 1-18, 2000.
- Description
- Christine de Pizan's version of the Griselda story emphasizes the gaze theme less than the versions by Chaucer and Petrarch do. Pizan's version is more clearly feminist than ClT, which presents a male viewpoint addressed to a community of male gazers, thinkers, and readers. ClT, however, acknowledge the force of Griselda's competitive female gaze.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.