'What Does a Woman Want?': Embracing the Goddess in Medieval Romance [ 'O Que a Mulher Deseja?': Abraçando a Deusa no Romance Medieval ]

Author / Editor
Greene, Logan Dale.

Title
'What Does a Woman Want?': Embracing the Goddess in Medieval Romance [ 'O Que a Mulher Deseja?': Abraçando a Deusa no Romance Medieval ]

Published
Literatura em Debate 2.3 (2008): n. p. [Electronic publication]

Description
Examines the "archetype, or mytheme," of the loathly lady in WBT and related stories, considering the implications that the story derives from "ancient Celtic myth with its archetypal patterns of masculine development." In Portuguese and English.

Alternative Title
"'O Que a Mulher Deseja?': Abraçando a Deusa no Romance Medieval."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations