Holy Erotic and the Virgin Word: Promiscuous Glossing in the "Wife of Bath's Prologue."
- Author / Editor
- Cox, Catherine S.
Holy Erotic and the Virgin Word: Promiscuous Glossing in the "Wife of Bath's Prologue."
- Published
- Exemplaria 5 (1993): 107-37.
- Description
- Although the Wife of Bath is a character constructed from masculine discourse, she appropriates that discourse into her own autoerotic sexual/textual glossing. In WBP, the Wife reveals an ambivalent feminine poetics within an apparently masculine discursive structure.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.