Chaucer's feminine subjects [electronic resource] : figures of desire in the Canterbury tales / John A. Pitcher.
2012
PR1928.W64 P58 2012eb
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Chaucer's feminine subjects [electronic resource] : figures of desire in the Canterbury tales / John A. Pitcher.
Author
Pitcher, John A., 1965-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781137089724 (electronic book)
9781403973221
9781403973221
Imprint
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 200 p.)
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PR1928.W64 P58 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.1
Summary
"Chaucer's Feminine Subjects demonstrates how poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer's rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity. More broadly, this study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts"-- Provided by publisher.
"This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer's rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity. "-- Provided by publisher.
"This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer's rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity. "-- Provided by publisher.
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New Middle Ages
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Table of Contents
Introduction Chaucer's feminine subjects: feminism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis
Figures of desire in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and tale
The rhetoric of desire in The Franklin's tale
The martyr's purpose: The rhetoric of disavowal in The Clerk's tale
Chaucer's Wolf: exemplary violence in The Physician's tale
Afterword.
Figures of desire in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and tale
The rhetoric of desire in The Franklin's tale
The martyr's purpose: The rhetoric of disavowal in The Clerk's tale
Chaucer's Wolf: exemplary violence in The Physician's tale
Afterword.