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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"The Wife of Bath"”.
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Proto-Feminist Chaucer: The Rivalry Between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk
This essay explores whether Geoffrey Chaucer should be considered a proto-feminist, focused primarily on “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” and “The Clerk’s Prologue and Tale”. The Wife of Bath, as this essay states, can arguably be considered a feminist character, based on modern definitions …
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English Literature's Father of Authorial Androgyny: The Innovative Perspective of Chaucer and the Wife of Bath
This thesis seeks to examine Geoffrey Chaucer as English literature’s father of authorial androgyny, specifically through an analysis of his Wife of Bath character. Through a close reading of the “General Prologue” descriptions of the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath as well as an analysis of the …
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Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: Rhetoric and Gender in Marriage
<p>In the Middle Ages, marriage represented a shift in the balance of power for both men and women. Struggling to define what constitutes the ideal marriage in medieval society, the marriage group of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales attempts to reconcile the ongoing battle for sovereignty …
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Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts
This dissertation expands upon the vibrant field of medieval queer studies by considering literary instances of medieval sexual power play via theory on contemporary BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism). It begins with a chapter outlining the history …