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.

Title
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.