'And Shortly for to Seyn They Were Aton': Chaucer's Deflection of Rape in the 'Reeve's' and 'Franklin's Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Barnett, Pamela E.
'And Shortly for to Seyn They Were Aton': Chaucer's Deflection of Rape in the 'Reeve's' and 'Franklin's Tales'
- Published
- Women's Studies 22 (1993): 145-62.
- Description
- Reflected in RvT and FranT, rape is "mystified" in various forms of male discourse--discourse that substitutes the symbolic for the semiotic and thus keeps women silent or turns "no" into "yes."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.