Queering Genres, Battering Males: The Wife of Bath's Narrative Violence
- Author / Editor
- Pugh, Tison.
Queering Genres, Battering Males: The Wife of Bath's Narrative Violence
- Published
- Journal of Narrative Technique 33: 115-42, 2003.
- Description
- Reading the Wife of Bath's romance through her fabliau spirit reveals Chaucer's distaste for the Arthurian romance tradition (elsewhere seen in SqT, NPT) and (as seen in SqT, Th, and FranT) his ironic attitude toward male narrative authority, his "queering of heteronormative masculine identity" (135).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Canterbury Tales-General.