Only Words: Cursing and the Authority of Language in Chaucer's Friar's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Godfrey, Mary F.
Only Words: Cursing and the Authority of Language in Chaucer's Friar's Tale
- Published
- Exemplaria 10 (1998): 307-28.
- Description
- Psychoanalytic argument that the old woman's curses are pivotal to the workings of hostility, manipulation, and eroticism in FrT. The summoner, the devil, and the woman reenact a patriarchal version of the Oedipal scenario, disrupted by the woman's appropriation of masculine discourse in her own defense.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.