'Truth' and 'Woman' in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale

Author / Editor
Straus, Barrie Ruth.

Title
'Truth' and 'Woman' in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale

Published
Straus, Barrie Ruth, ed. Skirting the Texts: Feminisms' Re-Readings of Medieval and Renaissance Texts. Special Issue of Exemplaria 4 (1992): 135-68.

Description
Examines the interrelations of "truth," "freedom," and "woman" as these terms are constructed in FranT. The Franklin's masculinist discourse posits distinctions between truth and fiction, appearance and reality, plain speaking and rhetoric, although each term is contaminated by its opposite.

Alternative Title
Skirting the Texts: Feminisms' Re-Readings of Medieval and Renaissance Texts.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.
Language and Word Studies.