'Me Thynketh It a Thyng Impertinent' : Inaugurating Dialogic Discourse in the Prologue to the Clerk's Tale

Author / Editor
McClellan, William.

Title
'Me Thynketh It a Thyng Impertinent' : Inaugurating Dialogic Discourse in the Prologue to the Clerk's Tale

Published
John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds. The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne (Madison, N.J., and London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 149-63.

Description
The Clerk's polemical stance in relation to Petrarch in ClP differentiates the Clerk's voice, rhetorical style, and ideology from Petrarch's, thus allowing for the introduction of dialogic discourse in the Tale itself.

Alternative Title
Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.