S̀pace to Speke': Confessional Practice and the Construction of Character in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Guillaume de Machaut, and Juan Ruiz
- Author / Editor
- Root, Jerry.
S̀pace to Speke': Confessional Practice and the Construction of Character in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Guillaume de Machaut, and Juan Ruiz
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 2373A-2374A.
- Description
- Following Foucault, Root examines the theory that patristic tradition and ecclesiastical practice eventually permitted confessional self-representation, as seen especially in WBT, Livre du voir dit, and Libro di buen Amor.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.