『캔터베리 이야기』에 등장하는 어머니상 연구: 「장원 관리인 이야기」, 「변호사의 이야기」, 「학생의 이야기」를 중심으로 = Motherhood in The Canterbury Tales: A Study of The Reeve`s Tale, The Man of Law`s Tale and The Clerk`s Tale

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

While The Canterbury Tales is famous for its God`s plenty, only five tales in the book accept the role of woman as mother. Even worse their presence is relatively insignificant except for a few tales. This study aims to explore why and how this happens. This study starts from an assumption that the tripartite structure of lay women`s estates mainly concerns the role of woman as a virgin, a wife or a widow and fails to recognize her as a mother. The thesis of this study is that The Reeve`s Tale, The Man of Law`s Tale, and The Clerk`s Tale reveal the problems inherent in the idea of motherhood in medieval patriarchy. The Reeve`s Tale shows that mother is not a meaningful criteria in the perception of woman and that only corporeality counts whether she is mother or not. On the other hand, The Man of Law`s Tale and The Clerk`s Tale reveal the contradictory nature of the norms on motherhood and wifehood which medieval patriarchy inculcates upon women. One of the most important tenets of medieval patriarchy is that a wife should produce a legitimate heir. Through an analysis of the cases of a dowager queen and a marquise who has produced a legitimate heir in each tale, this study argues that the patriarchal tenet, paradoxically enough, confines and extends the power and role of a mother at a stretch and that the maternal power rebounds upon history in spite of the patriarchal narrative strategies which try to contain it.

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