From the Crusading Virago to the Polysemous Virgin: Chaucer's Constance
- Author / Editor
- Dor, Juliette.
From the Crusading Virago to the Polysemous Virgin: Chaucer's Constance
- Published
- Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 129-40.
- Description
- Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of polyphony illuminates MLH, MLP, and MLT, in which Custance's religious voice contrasts with the Man of Law's many ambivalent voices, including his "rhetorical, epic, and legal registers." While Custance is a stock figure, the "basic scepticism of a dialogic tale" causes her to become an individual.
- Alternative Title
- Wyf Ther Was.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.