'at best no better than her opponents' 'Throughout, she has the winning quality of humour' 'We might see the Wife as sacrificing her femininity in pursuit of a feminist cause' 'the Wife's character is an enigma'
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Milan Kundera
'The novel is bisexual'
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Jonathan Myerson - Chaucer
'he has this tremendous compassion for his characters...they see their characters' faults, but they still love them'
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Sally Kinnes
'It is Chaucer's characters who are more memorable than their tales'
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Prof. John Sutherland
'torrent of self-revelation' 'She is probably semi-illiterate'
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Nigel Wheale
The Wife's tale was the most revised in the whole collection. 'Alisoun's prologue is in this sense a woman's attempt to appropriate the male power of the sermon itself'
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AJ Minnis
'a textual creature, a tissue of anti-feminist discourses relating tp sexually aggressive and shrewish women'
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H. Marshall Leicester Jr.
'Alisoun is an early feminist striving for autonomy in an oppressive patriachal society'
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Hansen
'reinforcing anti-feminist views by stereotyping medieval ideas about women as cruel, emotional and sexually voracious'
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Yildiz
'her prologue is taken as a revolutionary document for the age in which it was written' (proto-feminist view)
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Malcolm Hebron
'openness to multiple readings is the only way to appreciate her complex personality' 'Marriage in these tales is thus always about the assertion of power'
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Nicole Smith
'For the Wife of Bath, money, sex, and marriage are all interlinked and none can exist without the other' 'the only true power she possesses is that of her sexuality'
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Card 2
Front
'The novel is bisexual'
Back
Milan Kundera
Card 3
Front
'he has this tremendous compassion for his characters...they see their characters' faults, but they still love them'
Back
Card 4
Front
'It is Chaucer's characters who are more memorable than their tales'
Back
Card 5
Front
'torrent of self-revelation' 'She is probably semi-illiterate'
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