Argus' Eyes, Midas' Ears, and the Wife of Bath as Storyteller
- Author / Editor
- Fumo, Jamie C.
Argus' Eyes, Midas' Ears, and the Wife of Bath as Storyteller
- Published
- Alison Keith and Stephen Rupp, eds. Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007), pp. 129-50.
- Description
- The Wife of Bath's "manipulations of the Argus and Midas myths" reflect her Ovid-like "delight in sensuality and embeddedness of narrative" and her recognition of the power of story to "control and deceive." The myths help unify WBPT; through them, Chaucer explores the techniques and motivations of story-telling.
- Contributor
- Keith, Alison, ed.
- Rupp, Stephen, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.