The Consolation of Alison: The Speech Acts of the Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Schauber, Ellen,and Ellen Spolsky.
The Consolation of Alison: The Speech Acts of the Wife of Bath
- Published
- Centrum 5 (1977): 20-34.
- Description
- Since the speech acts of Alison consist of arguing, insisting,challenging, and confiding, the message is that she is always struggling against the givens of her world. She is Lady Philosophy "manque" since her views of behavior are hardly proper and her arguments are self-defensive harangues rather than logical persuasions.
- Contributor
- Spolsky, Ellen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.