The Perils of Pauline Theology: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

Author / Editor
West, Philip.

Title
The Perils of Pauline Theology: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

Published
Essays in Arts and Sciences 8 (1979): 7-16.

Description
The Wife of Bath is, in B. J. Whiting's phrase, "an oxymoron in the flesh," and modern structuralist criticism helps us to see the mythic implications of her parodies of Paul's dicta concerning marriage, apostolic experience, and beatific vision.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.