Review of Miller

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Review of Millers Tale

• The Miller quits the Knight
• Dramatic interaction, content, genre
• Estates satire/social dynamic
• Peasants Rebellion 1381

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The Wife of Bath

• Her Portrait
• Her Prologue
• Lets divide into two parts
• Lines 1-168
• Lines 199-834

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Wife of Bath

• GP Portrait Line 447

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Lines 199-834 The 5 Husbands

• The Three Good Husbands
• l. 410
• The Revelour (4) l. 487
• Jankyn and the Book of Wikked Wyves (5) l. 509

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Book of Wikked Wyves

• Line 672 ff.
• Valerian and Theophrastus
• Anti-Feminist tradition

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Lines 1-168 The Wife as Exegete

• The Wife is Fiction
• Exegesis
• Experience vs. Authority
• Sovereignty

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Wife as Text

• Wife is made up from other texts
• Palimpsest

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Wife as Text

• Wife is made up from other texts
• Palimpsest
• Line 475
• (taken from La Vieille in Roman de la Rose)

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Wife as Exegete

• l. 149
• 1 Corinthians 74
• For the wife does not rule over her own body,
  but the husband does, likewise the husband does
  not rule over his own body, but the wife does

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Whose Fantasy is this?

• Arthurian Romance
• Parallels between Prologue and Tale

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The Wife as Text

• Antifeminist nightmare?
• Who speaks for woman?
• l. 698

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Raptus

• What is the relationship between teller and tale?
  
• What does woman want?
• Parallel endings to Pro (l. 817 ff) and Tale (l.
  1256 ff)

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Raptus

• The case of Cecily Champaign