Disarming Women: Gender and Poetic Authority from the 'Thebaid' to the 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Gembera, Disa.

Title
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.