Naked Truth, Feminized Language, and Poetics: Paradigms of Femininity from the Rhetoricians to Chaucer

Author / Editor
Hass, Robin Ranea.

Title
Naked Truth, Feminized Language, and Poetics: Paradigms of Femininity from the Rhetoricians to Chaucer

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3949A-50A

Description
In the light of medieval "artes poetriae," rhetoric is perceived as feminine. Chaucer's hagiography, courtly romance, and fabliaux demonstrate rhetoric in various modes: as chaste, "pedestal," and wanton, especially as voiced by the Clerk and the Wife of Bath.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Clerk and His Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.