Wife Of Bath Critics Flashcards
Leicester
“Alisoun is an early feminist striving for autonomy is an oppressive patriarchal society”
Allen
“Her discourse is built from a tapestry of anti feminist writings and she can sometimes be the epitome of those things”
Whinny
“She has overthrown the prohibitive morality of the medieval church and planted her own pragmatic doctrine”
Pope
“The Wife of Baths prologue is a composite…it is made up of two parts, a sermon and a confession”
Robertson
“A device created by Chaucer for the purpose of outlying and rejecting a point”
Van
“All of her disguises can be removed to reveal another disguise”
Hebron
“We might see the wife as sacrificing her femininity in pursuit of her feminist choices”
Chaucer
“The bible is a text where in we find woman as the ruin of mankind”
