The Ambivalence of Truth: Chaucer's 'Clerkes Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Morrow, Patrick D.
The Ambivalence of Truth: Chaucer's 'Clerkes Tale'
- Published
- Patrick D. Morrow. Tradition, Undercut, and Discovery: Eight Essays on British Literature (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1980), pp. 16-36.
- Series
- Costerus, New Series, no. 28.
- Description
- Adjustments to the traditional narrative in ClT compel us to read Walter, Griselda, and the "peple" as complex characters, rich in ambiguity, in a setting that "moves between an ideal and real world" (27). These complications enrich the simple morality of the Saint's Legend genre, and indicate that the Clerk is in an "intellectual predicament," unable to be comfortable with simplistic morality.
- Alternative Title
- Tradition, Undercut, and Discovery: Eight Essays on British Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Book of the Duchess