Freedom Through Association? Chaucer's Psychology of Argumentation in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue'

Author / Editor
Weil, Susanne.

Title
Freedom Through Association? Chaucer's Psychology of Argumentation in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue'

Published
Pacific Coast Philology 30 (1995): 27-41.

Description
Associative thinking in WBP may have drawn on the model of Aristotelian psychology and argumentation as understood in Chaucer's day. As a consequence, the Wife of Bath's voice remains more real to a modern audience than does the debate she represents.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.