From Coilles to Bel Chose: Discourses of Obscenity in Jean de Meun and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, Alastair.
From Coilles to Bel Chose: Discourses of Obscenity in Jean de Meun and Chaucer
- Published
- Nicola McDonald, ed. Medieval Obscenities (York: York Medieval Press, 2006), pp. 156-78.
- Description
- Explores the "connection between dirty words and dirty things," focusing on the speech of "three outspoken female figures": Raison and La Vieille from the "Roman de la Rose" and Chaucer's Wife of Bath. While Raison attacks "linguistic equivocation" and La Vieille speaks explicitly, the Wife's obscene euphemisms in WBP are "governed by the dictates of bourgeois respectability."
- Contributor
- McDonald, Nicola, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Obscenities.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.