The Dialogue of Love, Marriage and "Maistrie" in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
- Author / Editor
- Pakkala-Weckstrom, Mari.
The Dialogue of Love, Marriage and "Maistrie" in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
- Published
- Helsinki : Société Néophilologique, 2005.
- Physical Description
- 265 pp.
- Description
- Explores the relationships between power ("maistrie") and gender in CT as these relationships are reflected in conversation and the dialogue of spouses and lovers in seven Tales: MilT, WBT, ClT, MerT, FranT, ShT, and Mel. Using techniques of historical pragmatics, Pakkala-Weckstrom examines such matters as politeness strategies, forms of address, pronoun usage, and speech acts--especially as they operate under a variety of conditions, including literary genre and the status of medieval women.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Shipman and His Tale.
- Tale of Melibee.