Experience, Authority, and the Mediation of Deafness: Chaucer's Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Sayers, Edna Edith.
Experience, Authority, and the Mediation of Deafness: Chaucer's Wife of Bath
- Published
- Joshua R. Eyler, ed. Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 81-92.
- Description
- Sayers reviews commentary on the Wife of Bath's deafness; suggests that we treat it more literally than metaphorically; and posits that, through the deafened Wife, Chaucer "does not resolve the opposition between experience and authority, but rather forces its abandonment."
- Alternative Title
- Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.