Alisoun's Ear
- Author / Editor
- Storm, Melvin.
Alisoun's Ear
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 42 (1981): 219-26.
- Description
- The deafness of the Wife of Bath is viewed as an iconographic reflection of her unbalanced intellectual and spiritual position. Hearing as she does with only one ear, the Wife's views are skewed to improper attention to the present--to the things of this world--at the expense of the things of the next.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.