The Parrhesiastic Game in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Tale of Melibee'
In this article, I use Michel Foucault's discussion of parrhesia in Fearless Speech to elucidate Chaucer's vision of political and personal disagreement in the Tale of Melibee. Melibee's and Prudence's argument over the proper response to violence represents a 'parrhesiastic...
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University of Western Australia
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/2657393/Brown-article.pdf |