'Fulfild of Fairye': The Social Meaning of Fantasy in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Fradenburg, Louise O.
'Fulfild of Fairye': The Social Meaning of Fantasy in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Published
- Peter G. Beidler, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Wife of Bath." (Boston and New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1996), pp. 205-20.
- Description
- Psychoanalytic analysis of WBP reveals the development of the narrator's identity through the history of her losses and pleasure, suggesting the failure of society to structure her desires. Through fantasy, WBT idealizes a version of the past and suggests the potential for achieving a new ideal.
- Alternative Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Wife of Bath": Complete Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.