Body and Awareness as Reflected in the Wife of Bath: A Historical Study Based on "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Štrmelj, Lidija.
Body and Awareness as Reflected in the Wife of Bath: A Historical Study Based on "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- In Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić, eds. Presence of the Body: Awareness in and beyond Experience (Boston, Mass.: Brill Rodopi, 2017), pp. 77-91.
- Description
- Characterizes the Wife of Bath as "full of life and energy," with a "material" rather than a "romantic" view of marriage, based in her "sexual instincts." Summarizes the GP description of the Wife as well as that in WBP, offers a Freudian analysis modeled on Herbert Marcuse, and concludes that the character "possessed and boldly expressed bodily awareness."
- Contributor
- Hofmann, Gert, ed.
Zorić, Snježana, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Presence of the Body: Awareness in and beyond Experience.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale