Five Genres in the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Utley, Francis Lee.
Five Genres in the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 6.3 (1972): 198-228.
- Description
- Explores how and where features of various genres inform the characterization, tone, atmosphere, and meaning of ClT, treating it as a scene in the "Canterbury drama," an exemplum of worldly and cosmic obedience, a fairy tale, a realistic novella, and an anagogic figurative narrative. Includes recurrent attention to Chaucer's sources in Boccaccio and Petrarchan, to Marian imagery, and to the Clerk as humorist.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Style and Versification