Theseus T(h)reads the Maze : Labyrinthine Empowerment/Impairment and Ariadne's Absence
- Author / Editor
- Doob, Penelope Reed.
Theseus T(h)reads the Maze : Labyrinthine Empowerment/Impairment and Ariadne's Absence
- Published
- R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse, eds. Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2001), pp. 167-84; 4 b&w figs.
- Description
- Surveys relations between female literary characters and labyrinths from mythic accounts to Lady Mary Worth's "Pamphilia to Amphilanthus," commenting on Virgil's "Aeneid," Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," Dante's "Commedia," WBPT, and the anonymous "Assembly of Ladies." The Wife of Bath constructs a rhetorical labyrinth, and the loathly lady offers the knight an "Ariadnean textual thread."
- Alternative Title
- Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.