Quest and Question in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Speed, Diane.
Quest and Question in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- Sydney Studies in English 22 (1996): 3-14.
- Description
- Comparison of WBT with its analogues reveals Chaucer's manipulation of generic expectations to create a sequence of "evocations and subversions of romance optimism." The hero's conventional quest is supplanted by "a textual quest on the part of the reader."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.