Confusing Signs : The Semiotic Point of View in the Clerk's Tale

Author / Editor
Myles, Robert.

Title
Confusing Signs : The Semiotic Point of View in the Clerk's Tale

Published
Robert Myles and David Williams, eds. Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001), pp. 107-27 and 205-09.

Description
Myles surveys medieval notions of natural and given signs, arguing that Griselda (and the reader with her) learns from her submission to Walter, insofar as it parallels a realist submission to quasi-nominalist understanding. Unlike Walter, Griselda eventually reflects a nascent "thesis of intentionality."

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.