Louise Erdrich's Lulu Nanapush : A Modern-Day Wife of Bath?

Author / Editor
Beidler, Peter.

Title
Louise Erdrich's Lulu Nanapush : A Modern-Day Wife of Bath?

Published
Studies in American Indian Literature 15 (2003): 92-103.

Description
Comments on the possible influence of CT on the frame-tale structure of Erdrich's "Tales of Burning Love" and considers to what extent parallels between the Wife of Bath and Lulu Nanapush ("Love Medicine") indicate that Chaucer's work is a source for Urdich's. Identifies eight parallels between Alison and Lulu.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.