'Sustres and paramours': Sexe et domination dans les 'Contes de Cantorbery'
- Author / Editor
- Crepin, Andre.
'Sustres and paramours': Sexe et domination dans les 'Contes de Cantorbery'
- Published
- Caliban 17 (1980): 3-21.
- Description
- NPT illustrates the alternation of sexual dominance in CT. The Priest among his nuns is like Chanticleer, "paragon des phallocrates," among his wives. But neither maintains dominance. Moreover, in NPT, as in CT as a whole, questions of sexual domination are ultimately transcended.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.