Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale': The Monsters and the Critics Reconsidered
- Author / Editor
- Frese, Dolores Warwick.
Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale': The Monsters and the Critics Reconsidered
- Published
- Chaucer Review 8.2 (1973): 133-46.
- Description
- Examines the tension in ClT between human pathos and clerkly training and intelligence, reading the combination as a depiction of late-medieval "clerkishness." Additions to his sources and the use of "specialized vocabulary" make Chaucer's tale appropriate to its narrative and evoke a powerful sense of accumulating narrative pressure, analogous to the pattern found in the tale's rhyme royal stanzas.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Language and Word Studies
- Style and Versification