'I Alisoun, I Wife': Foucault's Three Egos and the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Baumgardner, Rachel Ann.
'I Alisoun, I Wife': Foucault's Three Egos and the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Published
- Medieval Forum 5 (2006): n.p.
- Description
- Read against Foucault's "What Is an Author?" the Wife of Bath of WBP fits the criteria for representation of a "third ego." Thereby, she can be seen as a character who "establishes her own personality." Chaucer serves as a "medium for her determined and unique personality."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.