Go Ask Alisoun: Geoffrey Chaucer and Deafland (Deafness as Authority).
- Author / Editor
- Robinson, Carol L.
Go Ask Alisoun: Geoffrey Chaucer and Deafland (Deafness as Authority).
- Published
- Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
- Description
- Questions the assumptions underlying critical commentary on the Wife of Bath's deafness, exploring potential parallels between authority and experience, literacy and orality, and hearing and deafness. Indicts the "audism" of much of the commentary, and prefers the approach of Edna Edith Sayers. See the "Response" by a group of scholars in Literature Compass 16.1 (2019)
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Global Compaignye.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale