Freedom Through Association? Chaucer's Psychology of Argumentation in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue'
- Author / Editor
- Weil, Susanne.
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.