Narrative Voices in Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Prologue'
- Author / Editor
- Breuer, Horst.
Narrative Voices in Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Prologue'
- Published
- Wilhelm G. Busse, ed. Anglistentag 1991 Dusseldorf: Proceedings (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1992), pp. 418-27.
- Description
- Tallies devices in WBP whereby Chaucer sought to "criticize and belittle his own creation": blasphemy, intrusions of male discourse, contradiction, and various forms of distortion and exaggeration. But the Wife's "loud, polemical voice ... carries the day."
- Contributor
- Busse, Wilhelm G.,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Anglistentag 1991 Dusseldorf: Proceedings.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and her Tale.