The 'Other' Voice: Woman's Song, Its Satire and Its Transcendence in Late Medieval British Literature
- Author / Editor
- Fries, Maureen.
The 'Other' Voice: Woman's Song, Its Satire and Its Transcendence in Late Medieval British Literature
- Published
- John F. Plummer, ed. Vox Feminae: Studies in Medieval Woman's Songs (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, 1981), pp. 155-78.
- Series
- Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 15.
- Description
- The vernacular "woman's song" focuses passively on the beloved (not the speaker's feelings), powerless to control the beloved. Such features serve as a context to analyze the "comic sex- and/or class-role reversal" in RvT, MerT, and Antigone's Song and Criseyde's "aube" in TC.
- Alternative Title
- Vox Feminae: Studies in Medieval Woman's Songs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.