Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale: Female Sexuality Confined in a Prison of Language

Author / Editor
Lee, Dongchoon.

Title
Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale: Female Sexuality Confined in a Prison of Language

Published
Journal of English Language and Literature (Korea) 48 (2002): 263-87.

Description
Contrasts WBT with its English analogues and assesses the role of rhetorical dilation, which Chaucer derived from Roman and French traditions. The digressions compel readers to engage WBT dialogically.
In Korean, with English abstract.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations