The Wife of Bath's Parody of Scholasticism

Author / Editor
Shoukri, Doris Enright-Clark.

Title
The Wife of Bath's Parody of Scholasticism

Published
Alif 19 (1999): 97-112.

Description
Examines the use of Abelardian "sic et non" analysis in Mel as a demonstration of the "futility of arguing from Authority." In Mel, the sense of futility may be inadvertent, but in WBP it results from conscious parody of authoritarian argument. Summary in Arabic, pp. 246-47.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Tale of Melibee.