Sacred and Secular Exegesis in the Wyf of Bath's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Fleming, John V.
Sacred and Secular Exegesis in the Wyf of Bath's Tale
- Published
- Thomas Hahn and Alan Lupack, eds. Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 73-90.
- Description
- The sources for the Wife of Bath's performance as exegete--and the authorities she cites in her "Tale" (in particular Ovid,for the Midas story)--make clear that the underlying theme and conflict in WBPT concern "surface and substance, letter and spirit." Other interpretive starting points, such as realism or misogyny, operate as subsets of this dynamic.
- Alternative Title
- Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.