Science and Sensibility in Chaucer's Clerk
- Author / Editor
- Grennen, Joseph E.
Science and Sensibility in Chaucer's Clerk
- Published
- Chaucer Review 6.2 (1971): 81-93.
- Description
- Argues that ClT reveals the teller's "professional, speculative turn of mind" in contrast with the Wife of Bath's "rigorous sort of pragmatism," commenting on the Clerk's "academic terminology," his academic "awkwardness," and Walter's trial of Griselda as a "scholastic problem of motion." Comments on scholastic nuances of "sadness," "patience," and "proving" or "assaying."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Language and Word Studies