Interpreting Female Agency and Responsibility in The Miller's Tale and The Merchant's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Parry, Joseph D.
Interpreting Female Agency and Responsibility in The Miller's Tale and The Merchant's Tale
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 80.2 : 133-67, 2001.
- Description
- Because Alisoun in MilT and May in MerT are exempted from retribution for their active roles in adultery and deception, readers are invited to ask how women are or are not fully part of the systems by which we conceptualize accountability for actions; how fully integrated women are into the structures of interpretation that allow us to imagine the ends of human actions and stories; how those structures render our own readerly judgments; and how we ultimately discern and judge our own role in making narrative yield meaning.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.