Ventriloquizing Mothers: Chaucer's Poetic Authority in the "Tale of Melibee" and the "Manciple's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Matlock, Wendy A.
Ventriloquizing Mothers: Chaucer's Poetic Authority in the "Tale of Melibee" and the "Manciple's Tale."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 55, no. 4 (2020): 462-83.
- Description
- Positions Mel and ManT as "vivid examples of Chaucer's polyphonic authority that highlight the rich network of gendered speech constituting his mature voice." Argues that Chaucer's ventriloquized women in Mel and ManT translate continental sources into English ones.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee
Manciple and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations