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Tag Archives: Wife of Bath
Old Lit as a Transformational Experience
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Warning Labels for the Classics
Suggestions that certain classics come with “trigger warnings” leads of the following reflection.
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Lit’s 10 Most Painful Marriage Proposals
Literature 10 most painful marriage proposals.
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Lit’s 10 Strongest Female Characters
Who are literature’s ten strongest female characters? Here’s my list.
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Don’t Underestimate Midsummer Madness
The summer solstice and Shakespeare’s famous play appear sentimental to us today. They were not always so.
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Imagine the Wife of Bath vs. Rick Santorum
Candidate for the GOP presidential nominee Rick Santorum opposes birth control on the basis of natural law. Chaucer’s Wife of Bath would take his head off.
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Palin, Mama Grizzlies, and the Wife of Bath
There was a lot of talk about Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzlies” this past election season. The image, which conjures up mothers fiercely defending their threatened young, has never made logical sense to me as a rightwing symbol. After all, shouldn’t mothers be fighting fiercely for social safety net programs (which Sarah Palin attacks) and against […]
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