A Thrifty Tale: Narrative Authority and the Competing Values of the Man of Law's Tale

Author / Editor
Barlow, Gania.

Title
A Thrifty Tale: Narrative Authority and the Competing Values of the Man of Law's Tale

Published
Chaucer Review 44 (2010): 397-420.

Description
Through its several nested narratorial performances, each of which includes its own disavowals and subtle appropriations of authority, MLT renegotiates the relative power of spiritual and secular domains to control the interpretation and transmission of texts.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale