The Consolation of Alison: The Speech Acts of the Wife of Bath

Author / Editor
Schauber, Ellen,and Ellen Spolsky.

Title
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.