How Good Are Chaucer's Good Women? Embedded Mythological Stories in the Legend of Good Women's Prologue

Author / Editor
Dor, Juliette.

Title
How Good Are Chaucer's Good Women? Embedded Mythological Stories in the Legend of Good Women's Prologue

Published
Myriam Watthe-Delmotte and Paul-Augustin Deproost, eds. Imaginaires du mal. Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres: Transversalités, no. 1 (Paris: Cerf; and Louvain-la-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, 2000), pp.79-89.

Series
Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres: Transversalités, no. 1.

Description
Examines the ironies of LGW and LGWP, observing tensions between Cupid's binary claims and the dialogical voices and approaches in the tales themselves. Mythological allusions and various plays suggest a cycle of fertility at odds with binary oppositions and hence contrary to essentialist notions of gender.

Contributor
Watthe-Delmotte, ed.
Deproost, Paul-Augustin, ed.

Alternative Title
Imaginaires du mal.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.