Boethius, the Wife of Bath, and the Dialectic of Paradox
- Author / Editor
- Masi, Michael.
Boethius, the Wife of Bath, and the Dialectic of Paradox
- Published
- Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Philip Edward Phillips, eds. New Directions in Boethian Studies. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 45. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007, pp. 143-54.
- Description
- Traces the logic of paradox from its roots in Zeno through Boethius's Consolation to its uses in WBPT. Notes examples from Alain de Lille and Jean de Meun and discusses the Wife of Bath's uses of synthesis beyond contradiction and paradox.
- Contributor
- Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr., ed.
- Phillips, Philip Edward, ed.
- Alternative Title
- New Directions in Boethian Stuides.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.