Chaucer's Use of the Proserpina Myth in 'The Knight's Tale' and 'The Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Harley, Marta Powell.
Chaucer's Use of the Proserpina Myth in 'The Knight's Tale' and 'The Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Elizabeth T. Hayes, ed. Images of Persephone: Feminist Readings in Western Literature (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994), pp. 20-32.
- Description
- In alluding to the triple goddess Diana-Lucina-Prosperina to characterize Emily in KnT and May in MerT, Chaucer "simultaneously represents female assertiveness ... and vulnerability." However, he allows the potential to depict female pain to dissipate, never transcending "antifeminist cliches."
- Contributor
- Hayes, Elizabeth T.
- Alternative Title
- Images of Persephone: Feminist Readings in Western Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.