'To Alisoun now wol I tellen al my love-longing': Chaucer's Treatment of the Courtly Love Discourse in The Miller's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Forbes, Shannon.
'To Alisoun now wol I tellen al my love-longing': Chaucer's Treatment of the Courtly Love Discourse in The Miller's Tale
- Published
- Women's Studies 36.1 (2007): 1-14.
- Description
- In MilT, Alison resists Absolon's efforts to compel her to perform courtly behavior and chooses her "own predicates" of behavior, thus establishing her identity and coercing Absolon to abandon his failed courtly role.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale