Episodic Patterns and the Perpetrator: The Structure and Meaning Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'

Author / Editor
Brown, Carole Koepke.

Title
Episodic Patterns and the Perpetrator: The Structure and Meaning Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 31 (1996): 18-35.

Description
Episodes in the first part of WBT parallel events in the second. This "step parallelism structure" reveals a "pattern of attenuation" that emphasizes the development of the knight, who becomes less impulsive and more reflective through the course of the "Tale."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.