Episodic Patterns and the Perpetrator: The Structure and Meaning Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Carole Koepke.
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.