The Motives of Reeds: The Wife of Bath’s Midas and Literary Tradition.
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Karla.
The Motives of Reeds: The Wife of Bath’s Midas and Literary Tradition.
- Published
- Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen, eds. Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.), pp. 25-41.
- Description
- Uses Sergej Karcevskij’s theory of miscommunication to clarify the amalgamation and "redoctrinations" of various versions and interpretations of the Midas story, exploring how Chaucer's version in WBT engages Ovid's original and related materials.
- Alternative Title
- Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations