caa a22 4500 606172505 CHVBK 20210128100728.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11059-015-0307-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11059-015-0307-8 Al-Garrallah Aiman Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma'an, Jordan aut ‘The cunning wife/fruit tree' syndrome: Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale and seven Arabic stories [Elektronische Daten] [Aiman Al-Garrallah] 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 "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. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2015 Archetype nationallicence Cunning nationallicence Hortus conclusus nationallicence Pear nationallicence Sycamore nationallicence Palm nationallicence Tree nationallicence Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/2(2015-12-01), 671-686 0324-4652 42:2<671 2015 42 11059 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-015-0307-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-015-0307-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Al-Garrallah Aiman Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma'an, Jordan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/2(2015-12-01), 671-686 0324-4652 42:2<671 2015 42 11059