Ideological Approaches to Nature and Female Body in Witch Poems.
- Author / Editor
- Düzgün, Şebnem.
Ideological Approaches to Nature and Female Body in Witch Poems.
- Published
- Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 6, no. 10 (2018): 113-23.
- Description
- Assumes that the loathly lady in WBT is a witch, and maintains that she is "stigmatised in the poem to enforce the medieval discourse that appreciates nurture against nature, obedience against revolt, and youth and beauty against old age and ugliness." The rapist knight is a figure of patriarchy, which the loathly lady ultimately accepts. Also assesses Robert Burns's "Tam o'Shanter," John Keats's "Lamia," and Anne Sexton's "Her Kind."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Baath and Her Tale