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The Wife of Bath (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared e...more
Paperback, 306 pages
Published
December 15th 1995
by Bedford/St. Martin's
(first published 1940)
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The Wife of Bath is one of the texts that I read for my A2 coursework. Part of Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales', The Wife has the largest Prologue to her tale, and is perhaps one of the most colourful characters in the Tales.
The Wife has been married five times and is keen to put forward the idea that female experience is more important than written male authority when it comes to the experience of marriage. The Wife neatly criticises authorities from the Bible and other early texts, in add...more
The Wife has been married five times and is keen to put forward the idea that female experience is more important than written male authority when it comes to the experience of marriage. The Wife neatly criticises authorities from the Bible and other early texts, in add...more
No doubt great in its time, but now obsolete, at least for a grad class, and I suppose that's a good thing. Not a bad thing to have on hand for the instructor, but there's little in the introductions that can't be covered--in an updated form!--in lecture, and there's enough on the WoB, and enough lists of essays, that the instructor can readily compensate for not having the special-for-this-volume Patterson, Leicester, &c at hand. I recommend teaching the Ashton in the Oxford Chaucer Guide.
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I love all his work .
i liked it but not as much as i thought i would
I liked the essays at the back, but Mr Beidler himself is rather pedantic for me. He seems to be really a hard-core hardcore Chaucer superspecialist - but really, I couldn't care too much about the clerical details of the Chaucerian manuscripts...
I haven't read it yet. I need to read it as research for a faerie story I'm writing. I just downloaded it, and I'm looking forward to reading it.
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We read this in my first graduate course as a model for writing a critical edition.
fun to read this in middle english! Great textual criticism articles at the end.
I just loved the Wife of Bath's witty-ness in this!
need to chg ths to just story no criticism
heh heh
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400?) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacu...more
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