The Riddle, the Tale, the Question: Telling Gender, Poetics, and Psychoanalysis

Author / Editor
Clayton, Candyce Lynn.

Title
The Riddle, the Tale, the Question: Telling Gender, Poetics, and Psychoanalysis

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 800A.

Description
Half a millenium before Freud, Chaucer's WBT asks "What does woman want?" In light of recent critical theory, this question is explored in the works of Gabriela Mistral and Gillian Clarke as well as in WBT.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.