Alisoun Weaves a Text
- Author / Editor
- Knapp, Peggy A.
Alisoun Weaves a Text
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 65 (1986): 387-401.
- Description
- Discusses four readings of WBP: (1) Alison as a shrewd, aggressive entrepreneur, (2) Alison as a feminist in a society that constantly maligns her, (3) Alison as an archteypical Eve guilty of the sin of pride, and (4) Alison as a sociopath. These interpretations depend on readers' generic expectations; the text is coherently woven to allow for them all.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.