A Thyng Impertinent: Dreaming Women in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Mukherji, Sajni.
A Thyng Impertinent: Dreaming Women in Chaucer
- Published
- Supriya Chaudhuri and Sukanta Chaudhuri, eds. Writing Over: Medieval to Renaissance (Calcutta: Allied, in collaboration with the Department of English, Jadavpur University, 1996), pp. 1-10.
- Description
- Reads the dreams of Criseyde and of the Wife of Bath as "counter discourse" to the male dominant discourse of prophetic dreaming. The dreams of the women are more complex and without clear directives.
- Alternative Title
- Writing Over: Medieval to Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.