Ideal Fiction: "The Clerk's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Cunningham, J. V.
Ideal Fiction: "The Clerk's Tale."
- Published
- Shenandoah 19.2 (1968): 38-41.
- Description
- Defines ClT as an example of "Ideal Fiction," generally unpalatable to modern taste, identifying the presence of a manipulator in the plot (Walter), the narrative "distance" achieved through its combination of "ordinariness" and fantasy, the extremeness of the action, its "ideality of invention," and the flatness of the characters.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale