Communities of Otherness in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Kraman, Cynthia.
Communities of Otherness in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Diane Watt, ed. Medieval Women in Communities (Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1997), pp. 138-54.
- Description
- In MerT, the marginal communities of females and Jews maintain ambiguous statuses, serve as subtext to the "Tale," and assert the seductiveness of the suppressed. The ambiguity of the garden--exciting but exclusionary--is associated with female bodies and derives from the Jewish "Song of Songs."
- Contributor
- Watt, Diane,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Women in Communities.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.