"Following Echo": Speech and Common Profit in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Bryan, Jennifer E.
"Following Echo": Speech and Common Profit in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale."
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 73-109.
- Description
- Extends discussions of ClT as a "political fable," focusing on the theme of common profit and on the Clerk as a philosopher, assessing both in light of Bo as an "account of the philosopher's duty to the common profit." Rejects the "Griseldean values of abject obedience and self-abnegation," arguing that ClT and its comic envoy affirm the need to speak reasonably against political absolutism and to resist "bad Boethianism" and nostalgic Petrarchan eloquence.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Boece
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations