'To walke aboute the mase, in certeynte, / As a woman that nothing rought': The Maze Motif and Feminine Imagination in 'The Assembly of Ladies'
- Author / Editor
- Spencer, Alice.
'To walke aboute the mase, in certeynte, / As a woman that nothing rought': The Maze Motif and Feminine Imagination in 'The Assembly of Ladies'
- Published
- Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 204-23.
- Description
- The anonymous author of "The Assembly of Ladies" counterdefines herself against a clearly Chaucerian courtly tradition by allying herself with a distinctly feminine textuality that is opposed to a traditional masculine hermeneutics.
- Alternative Title
- Standing in the Shadow of the Master?
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations