Unity and Duality in "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Zimbardo, Rose A.
Unity and Duality in "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "Tale."
- Published
- Tennessee Studies in Literature 11 (1966): 11-18.
- Description
- Reads WBPT as concerned with the "reconciliation of opposites that to human perception seem irreconcilable." WBP poses a range of oppositions dialectically (experience and authority, female and male, physical and metaphysical), resolving them through love and generosity. WBT "stands as an exemplum" which illustrates the reconciliation effected by generosity. The Wife is an "agent of the Life Force."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale