Metafictional Strategies and the Theme of Sexual Power in the Wife of Bath's and Franklin's Tales

Author / Editor
Stephens, John,and Marcella Ryan.

Title
Metafictional Strategies and the Theme of Sexual Power in the Wife of Bath's and Franklin's Tales

Published
Nottingham Medieval Studies 33 (1989): 56-75.

Description
Explores how some poststructuralist contributions to the theory of narrative enable a feminist rereading of two of the tales and suggests that Chaucer presents a bleak view of male-female relations.

Contributor
Ryan, Marcella.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Franklin and His Tale.