Open Journal Montreal

By Alexandra Yarrow. In Chapter 7 of her book, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World, Christine Borgman writes that libraries often “risk being victims of their own success” (194). When libraries function optimally, they offer services that can easily go unnoticed by the general public. Processes such [...]

By Kamal Fox Who can control the Wife of Bath? In the portrait presented in the General Prologue, the Wife of Bath seems larger-than-life. We read of her “ten pound” kerchiefs (l. 454), her red stockings (l. 456), her five husbands (l. 460), and her hat that is as broad as a shield (l. 470-71). [...]