Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and the Nature Goddess Tradition.
- Author / Editor
- Wilson, Janet.
Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and the Nature Goddess Tradition.
- Published
- Literature and Aesthetics: The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics 27.1 (2017): 17-38.
- Description
- Compares Katherine Mansfield's and Virginia Woolf's uses of personifications of Nature as a feature of their modernism, derived from their familiarity with medieval and Renaissance depictions of Nature as a goddess, including Chaucer's Nature in PF. Also comments on the writers' familiarity with the Wife of Bath and with Pandarus as a Pan figure.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Parliament of Fowls
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Troilus and Criseyde