Nominalism and the Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Delasanta, Rodney [K.]
Nominalism and the Wife of Bath
- Published
- Providence: Studies in Western Culture 3 (1996): 285-310.
- Description
- Assesses the Wife of Bath's admissions of lying, her glossings of Scripture, and her sexual punning as "nominalistic discourse" underpinned by her preference for the empirical and experiential over the universal. Disagrees with feminist readings of WBP and argues that Chaucer satirizes the Wife.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.