Chaucer, Gower, and the Unknown Minstrel: The Literary Liberation of the Loathly Lady
- Author / Editor
- Vasta, Edward.
Chaucer, Gower, and the Unknown Minstrel: The Literary Liberation of the Loathly Lady
- Published
- Exemplaria 7 (1995): 395-418.
- Description
- Compares WBT, Gower's "Tale of Florent," and "Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell" in light of Bakhtin's theory of carnival.
- Both Gower (thoroughly) and Chaucer (ambiguously) assimilate the Lady into official culture, while the "Weddynge" liberates both Lady and culture from that culture's repressive forces.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.