Lost in the Not-So-Fun House: Subversive Threads in the Medieval Narrative Labyrinth

Author / Editor
Risden, E. L.

Title
Lost in the Not-So-Fun House: Subversive Threads in the Medieval Narrative Labyrinth

Published
Enarratio 13 (2006): 1-24.

Description
Risden explores how several medieval narratives "subvert" readers' expectations and "hint at the loneliness of the moral act." Includes comments on WBP, as well as on "Beowulf," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "Piers Plowman," and other works.

Alternative Title
The Plenary Address, 22nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Midwest, January 2007, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale