The Alba Lady, Sex-Roles, and Social Roles : 'Who Peyntede the Leon, Tel Me Who?'
- Author / Editor
- Sigal, Gale.
The Alba Lady, Sex-Roles, and Social Roles : 'Who Peyntede the Leon, Tel Me Who?'
- Published
- John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds. The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne (Madison, N.J., and London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2000 ), pp. 221-40.
- Description
- The twelfth-century alba genre offered a more flexible paradigm for gender roles than critics have realized, a flexibility that Chaucer, in his appropriation of the alba in TC, continues and capitalizes on as he highlights the lovers' differences in their respective characters.
- Alternative Title
- Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.