Prudence's Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Author / Editor
- Keller, Kimberly.
Prudence's Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 98 (1997): 415-26.
- Description
- Mel resembles several other late-fourteenth-century retellings of this story as a proper model for wifely imitation. In using the form of the scholastic arts lecture, however, Prudence co-opts a masculine discursive style and its authoritative language, thereby offering female readers a potential route to empowerment.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee.