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Dongchoon Lee (Daegu U)M. M. Bakhtins dialogic concept of multi-voiced discourse allows us toopen up the text of The Clerks Taleand to account for its radical hetero-geneity. Once we recognize the multi-voiced character of The Clerks Tale,then what was heretofore regarded as discontinuous or ignored can be seenas the clash of several different world-views. Such a conceptual frameworkgives an added depth and scope to such thematic subjects as sovereignty,the status of women, and rhetorical style.There are three different and antagonistic voices involved in the talesnarration. These voices project different viewpoints or world-views, andthey consequently engage each other in a polemic debate. Their relationshipwith each other is discontinuous and dialectical rather than continuous andharmonious. The first voice is the Petrarchan voice of moral allegory, whichis the voice of tradition, authority, and high seriousness. This voice of moralallegory regards the story of Griselda as an exemplum of spiritual constancyand virtuous suffering. The second voice is the Clerkly voice of pathos basedon human experience and feeling. This voice is defined by the Clerks
