The Phallic Leek
- Author / Editor
- Jones, Lowanne E.
The Phallic Leek
- Published
- Rupert T. Pickens, ed. Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Romance Linguistics (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993), pp. 419-26.
- Description
- Jones explores the use of the leek as a phallic symbol in works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Boccaccio, and Rabelais.
- Chaucer's use of the leek as metaphor represents sexual prowess in MilT and virility in old age in MerT.
- Contributor
- Pickens, Rupert T.,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Romance Linguistics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.