Chaucerian Ritual and Patriarchal Romance

Author / Editor
Ganim, John M.

Title
Chaucerian Ritual and Patriarchal Romance

Published
Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 65-86.

Description
Challenges the claim that Chaucer is sympathetic to women, demonstrating that he silences Emelye's literary past in KnT and seeks to contain feminine gender through adjustments of Boccaccio's Teseida; the tension between order and chaos in KnT reflects the problems of such an attempt. Ganim also assesses the God of Love in LGW as an unsympathetic feminized male.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Legend of Good Women.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.