Dear all,

Please discuss the following quotation, do you feel it represents your feelings after reading "The Wife of Bath"? If so, how?


"Chaucer´s text is complex and layered, his position is impossible to pin down, his tone inscrutably ironic. Master of indirection, he refuses to nail his colours to the mast in a gesture that fuses complicity with critique. There is no easy way to align ideological sympathies when medieval men write about women" Poplawski, P. et al., 2008

Claudia

Dear all,

First, remember to write a 150 word long post with the title "What women love most" as a reflection of your reading of "The Wife of Bath" by Chaucer, our discussion in class and your own experience. Deadline Wednesday 29.

As promised, you´ll find below a link to the letter that Edmund Spenser wrote to Sir Walter Raleigh as an explanation of his intention in writing The Faerie Queene. Read the letter for next class.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15272/15272-h/15272-h.htm#letter

See you next week,
Claudia