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.
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.