Disarming Women: Gender and Poetic Authority from the 'Thebaid' to the 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Gembera, Disa.
Disarming Women: Gender and Poetic Authority from the 'Thebaid' to the 'Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 3505A.
- Description
- Women furnish the "crucial means" for authors to adapt the Theban tradition to their own poetic vision.
- Statius shows women as criticizing epic history; the "Roman de Thebes," Dante's "Purgatorio," and Boccaccio's "Teseida" impose differing emphases; and KnT, more nearly like the epic history of Statius, shows women as sustaining losses and sacrifices.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.