Archetypal Chaucer: The Case of the Disappearing Hag in The Wife of Bath's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Herold, Christine.
Archetypal Chaucer: The Case of the Disappearing Hag in The Wife of Bath's Tale
- Published
- Charlotte Spivack and Christine Herold, eds. Archetypal Readings of Medieval Literature (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2002), pp. 47-65.
- Description
- Herold reads WBT as an "individuation myth" in which the knight gains "wisdom and self-empowerment" in his encounters with the anima, manifested in the "triple-aspect of the Great Mother Archetype": maiden, queen, and loathly lady.
- Alternative Title
- Archetypal Readings of Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.