The Body Speaks in "The Franklin's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Bose, Mishtooni.
The Body Speaks in "The Franklin's Tale."
- Published
- Louise D’Arcens, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds. Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 75-94.
- Description
- Examines the "“fissure between spoken utterances and the body's voice" in Arveragus's burst into tears (FranT 5.1479–80), engaging the theme of truth in the Tale and the "dynamic between . . . irruptions of the somatic voice and the dissociative occasions that precipitate them." Contrasts this episode with its analogue in Boccaccio's Tale of Menedon, and addresses instances of somatic speech in KnT, NPT, TC and in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Literary Voices
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Knight and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde