How to Say 'I': the Clerk, the Wife and Petrarch
- Author / Editor
- Carney. Clíodhna.
How to Say 'I': the Clerk, the Wife and Petrarch
- Published
- Clíodhna Carney and Frances McCormack, eds. Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013), pp. 61-74.
- Description
- Considers the relationship between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk, focusing on their shared approach to self-presentation through the words of other writers and their interrelationship as speakers. Highlights the Wife's use of clerical authority and the Clerk's sudden "verbal ingenuity" when speaking about marital issues in his Envoy, after he departs from his Petrarchan source material and speaks, in a sense, in his own voice.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations