Slaying Python: Marriage and Misogyny in a Chaucerian Text
- Author / Editor
- Delany, Sheila.
Slaying Python: Marriage and Misogyny in a Chaucerian Text
- Published
- Sheila Delany. Writing Woman (New York: Schocken Books, 1983), pp.47-75.
- Description
- Psychological and cultural interpretation of PhyT and ManT murders of women motivated by misogynistic violence and impulse to control women. Both tales displace attention to trivialities: woman and nature (PhyT) and natural lust (ManT).
- Alternative Title
- Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature Medieval to Modern
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Physician and His Tale.