Three Metaphors of Criticism and the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Williams, Michael E.
Three Metaphors of Criticism and the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 20 (1985): 144-57.
- Description
- The three metaphors are the machine, the organism, and opposite poles of attraction. Applied to WBT, each reveals a truth about the narrative--the third of them resulting in a challenge to our assumptions and a reminder that "our 'truth' about a text need not restrict its richness for others" (p.156).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.