“A Verray Jangleresse”

World of Echo ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 163-194
Author(s):  
Adin E. Lears
Keyword(s):  
Canterbury Tales ◽  
Wife Of Bath ◽  
The Canterbury Tales

This chapter examines Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales as a study in voice that is structured by what David Lawton calls an unprecedented display of multiple tellers. It explains how “The Wife of Bath” is among the loudest of the voices in multiple senses of the word. It also analyses the multivalent loudness, which shows how Chaucer adapts the trope from antimarriage authors like Walter Map and uses it to govern two of the Wife's most fundamental characteristics: her deafness and her “jangling” voice. The chapter looks at deafness as the first defining characteristic of the Wife of Bath in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. It elaborates how the Wife's deafness is closely related to her relationship to texts.

scholarly journals Transformation in Chaucer’s the ‘Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale’

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Gassim H. Dohal
Keyword(s):  
Canterbury Tales ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
P 16 ◽  
Different Shapes ◽  
Wife Of Bath ◽  
The One ◽  
The Canterbury Tales

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), the Wife of Bath appears “as a woman of very strong opinions who believes firmly in marriage” and as well “in the need to manage husbands strictly” (Thornley & Gwyneth 1993, p.16), and hence her story is about an Arthurian knight who rapes a maiden and has to face the consequences of his deed. The pilgrims of Chaucer’s masterpiece undergo transformations, which are chronicled in this literary text. These transformations occur in a variety of forms and take different shapes. The Wife of Bath is one of these travellers.  In the following discussion, I'll look at how the ‘Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale’ handles metamorphosis. By reading this article, readers will realize that transformation is not limited to the one of the hag that occurs at the end of the tale.

scholarly journals The Wife of Bath – Early Feminist?

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Vandana Lohia
Keyword(s):  
Canterbury Tales ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Wife Of Bath ◽  
The Canterbury Tales

The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe – written in 14th century England – remains to be one of the most widely known tales from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer gives voice to this pilgrim woman at a time when Richard II’s England was wrought with imbalance of power in the male dominated society. The purpose of this essay is to discern whether the Wife of Bath was an early feminist or not. She is commonly referred to as “the wife” and not her name - this is precisely the notion that she sets out to defy - that a woman, in a society, can only be identified by relation to a man, be it as a wife, mother, sister or a daughter.

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant’s Tale and the Dialectic of Elevation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Fruoco
Keyword(s):  
Geoffrey Chaucer ◽  
Canterbury Tales ◽  
Moyen Âge ◽  
The Canterbury Tales ◽  
Moyen Age

Geoffrey Chaucer pose dans The Canterbury Tales un regard unique sur l’évolution de la poésie anglaise durant le Moyen Âge. L’alternance de genres et de styles poétiques différents lui permet de refléter tout le potentiel de la littérature par le biais d’un réagencement des images, symboles et conventions qui la définissent. Néanmoins, ce qui fait la force de Chaucer dans The Canterbury Tales, est sa capacité à développer un dialogue entre les différents récits constituant l’œuvre, ainsi que sa facilité à renverser nos attentes en extrayant son public d’un roman de chevalerie pour le propulser dans l’univers carnavalesque du fabliau, comme c’est le cas dans The Merchant’s Tale. En jouant avec l’imaginaire de l’arbre et du fruit, Chaucer nous prive dans ce conte de toute élévation et fait de son poirier un arbre inversé.

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