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Soft Power in The Merchant's Tale |
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| Abstract: | The essay applies Edmund Burke's theory about the sublime and the beautiful to the reversal of the dominant and subordinate roles of the husband and the wife in The Merchant's Tale. Burk's concept of the soft power, expounded as physical and sexual charm and enchantment, enables May successfully manipulates her husband January and the adulterer Damian, beneath her apparent passivity. |
| Keywords: | soft power sublime beautiful |
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