‘The cunning wife/fruit tree-syndrome: Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale and seven Arabic stories

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• 作者：Aiman Sanad Al-Garrallah
• 关键词：Archetype ; Cunning ; Hortus conclusus ; Pear ; Sycamore ; Palm ; Tree
• 刊名：Neohelicon
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：42
• 期：2
• 页码：671-686
• 全文大小：416 KB
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• 作者单位：Aiman Sanad Al-Garrallah (1)
  
  1. Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an, Jordan
  
• 刊物主题：Comparative Literature;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1588-2810

文摘

In using a feminist archetypal approach, this essay is intended to shed some light on specific archetypal patterns in Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale and seven Arabic tales. This essay argues that there are some primordial, universal and recurrent archetypes which connect those texts together. In so doing, this essay investigates how those archetypes (i.e. tree, garden, billet-doux, key) are associated with the cunning wife archetype, which can be encapsulated as -em class="EmphasisTypeItalic ">uxor callida Complex.-This hybrid archetype is, so to speak, pollinated by a cluster of archetypes. Notable among those archetypes is the tree archetype which remains the sine qua non of that hybrid archetype, making up into what might be phrased as “the cunning wife/fruit tree-syndrome. This study aims at tracing their roots to religious texts and mythology. This archetypal collating of those narratives offers deep insights into the dynamics of the collective unconsciousness of the two cultures that produce those tales. By way of concluding, it can be suggested that the tales incorporating those archetypes are modifications, if not translations, of an underlying ur-myth that has its allure in English and Arabic cultures. Keywords Archetype Cunning Hortus conclusus Pear Sycamore Palm Tree