Reflecting Pools: The Thematic Construction of Gender in Medieval Romance

Author / Editor
Grinnell, Natalie.

Title
Reflecting Pools: The Thematic Construction of Gender in Medieval Romance

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 2644A.

Description
Analyzes the motif of the reflecting pool in works by Chretien de Troyes, Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, Chaucer, and John Gower.
These works indicate that gender stereotypes become more rigid through time and that representations of feminine power faded in Western tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.