CHAUCER'S WIFE OF BATH AND JOHN FOWLES'S QUAKER MAID: TALE-TELLING AND THE TRIAL OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND WRITTEN AUTHORITY.

This article examines the medieval influence of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales on John Fowles's postmodern novel, A Maggot. I argue that Fowles's fiction reimagines and ultimately transforms the Wife of Bath's debate about experience and written authority through the novel's 'Quaker Maid' Rebecca Lee, w...

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Publicado en:	Modern Language Review Vol. 102; no. 4; pp. 933 - 947
Autor principal:	Arnell, Carla
Formato:	Literary Criticism
Publicado:	Modern Humanities Research Association Oct2007
Materias:	Literary characters Criticism Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 Canterbury Tales Fowles, John, 1926-2005 Maggot, A (Book : Fowles) Wife of Bath (Fictional character)
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