Deflection in the Mirror: Feminine Discourse in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue' and 'Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Dickson, Lynne.
Deflection in the Mirror: Feminine Discourse in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue' and 'Tale'
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 61-90.
- Description
- Although WBP does not succeed in fictionalizing a discourse community of women, it makes clear the possibility in its struggle with patriarchal authority. WBT poses such a community in a transient, illusory form. Chaucer capitalizes on the contemporary desire for women's access to literature and for feminine discourse, anticipating Christine de Pisan.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.