Overhearing Complaint and the Dialectic of Consolation in Chaucer's Verse

Author / Editor
Clarke, Catherine A. M.

Title
Overhearing Complaint and the Dialectic of Consolation in Chaucer's Verse

Published
Reading Medieval Studies 29: 19-30, 2003.

Description
Clarke discusses the motif of eavesdropping in TC, KnT, and BD. Overhearing (both deliberate and accidental) places speaker and listener in a dialectic relationship.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Knight and His Tale.
Book of the Duchess.