Charismatic Heroines in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women."
- Author / Editor
- Dumitrescu, Irina.
Charismatic Heroines in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women."
- Published
- Uwe Baumann, Marc Laureys, and Konrad Vössing, eds. Heroinnen und Heldinnen in Geschichte, Kunst und Literatur (Göttingen: V&R unipress; Bonn University Press, 2022), pp. 357-74.
- Description
- Argues that the female protagonists of LGW are heroic in their combinations of strength and suffering, and, "adapting a notion of charisma from Joseph Roach," characterizes their heroism as "charismatic.""The "extraordinary virtues and qualities" of these women combine with their vulnerabilities and pathos-laden suffering to produce "a complex, specifically feminine charisma"--aligned with the rhetorical tradition of "ethopoeia" and with the practices of affective piety.
- Contributor
- Baumann, Uwe, ed.
Laureys, Marc, ed.
Vössing, Konrad, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Heroinnen und Heldinnen in Geschichte, Kunst und Literatur
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women