From Error to Anacoluthon: The Moral of the "Clerk's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Normandin, Shawn.
From Error to Anacoluthon: The Moral of the "Clerk's Tale."
- Published
- Notes and Queries 260 (2015): 218–19.
- Description
- In rendering Petrarch's explanation for why God tests humans in the form of a disjointed sentence (ClT, 1153-61), Chaucer points out its irrationality. Argues how this ploy resonates with the Clerk's expression of qualms about Petrarch at the beginning of his tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification