Some Uses of the Bible and Biblical Authority in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Mendelson, Anne.
Some Uses of the Bible and Biblical Authority in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 2295A.
- Description
- The incongruity of the method of theological "quaestiones" (humble) in WBP with the Wife's aggressive, arbitrary approach and some of her orthodox assertions create the comic effect. WBT exhibits a transformation: the intellectual authority of the disputator and and the social authority of the superior sex are united in the tale's heroine.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.