Textual Fidelity and Betrayal: Chaucer's Deserted Women
- Author / Editor
- Kallstrom, Martha Ann.
Textual Fidelity and Betrayal: Chaucer's Deserted Women
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 3945A.
- Description
- The deserted woman, deriving from classical sources through medieval tradition, embodied the conflict of "amor" and "pietas." Appearing in allusion, exempla, and the poems HF, LGW, MLT, FranT, Anel, and TC, the deserted woman demonstrates for Chaucer the interplay of experience and authority.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- House of Fame.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Anelida and Arcite.
- Troilus and Criseyde.