000452982 000__ 04036cam\a2200529\a\4500 000452982 001__ 452982 000452982 005__ 20210513155929.0 000452982 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000452982 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000452982 008__ 121115s2012\\\\nyu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0deng\d 000452982 010__ $$z 2011049328 000452982 020__ $$a9781137089724$$q(electronic book) 000452982 020__ $$z9781403973221 000452982 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn796995845 000452982 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC956605 000452982 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579450 000452982 035__ $$a452982 000452982 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000452982 043__ $$ae-uk-en 000452982 05014 $$aPR1928.W64$$bP58 2012eb 000452982 08204 $$a821/.1$$223 000452982 1001_ $$aPitcher, John A.,$$d1965- 000452982 24510 $$aChaucer's feminine subjects$$h[electronic resource] :$$bfigures of desire in the Canterbury tales /$$cJohn A. Pitcher. 000452982 250__ $$a1st ed. 000452982 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2012. 000452982 300__ $$a1 online resource (xiv, 200 p.) 000452982 440_0 $$aNew Middle Ages 000452982 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000452982 5050_ $$aIntroduction Chaucer's feminine subjects: feminism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis -- Figures of desire in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and tale -- The rhetoric of desire in The Franklin's tale -- The martyr's purpose: The rhetoric of disavowal in The Clerk's tale -- Chaucer's Wolf: exemplary violence in The Physician's tale -- Afterword. 000452982 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000452982 520__ $$a"Chaucer's Feminine Subjects demonstrates how poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer's rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity. More broadly, this study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000452982 520__ $$a"This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer's rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity. "--$$cProvided by publisher. 000452982 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000452982 60010 $$aChaucer, Geoffrey,$$d-1400$$xLanguage. 000452982 60010 $$aChaucer, Geoffrey,$$d-1400$$xCharacters$$xWomen. 000452982 60010 $$aChaucer, Geoffrey,$$d-1400.$$tCanterbury tales. 000452982 650_0 $$aWomen in literature. 000452982 650_0 $$aDesire in literature. 000452982 650_0 $$aGender identity in literature. 000452982 650_0 $$aSex role in literature. 000452982 650_0 $$aFeminism and literature$$zEngland. 000452982 650_0 $$aPsychoanalysis and literature$$zEngland. 000452982 650_0 $$aWomen and literature$$zEngland$$xHistory$$yTo 1500. 000452982 77608 $$iPrint verson:$$aPitcher, John A., 1965-$$tChaucer's feminine subjects.$$b1st ed.$$dNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2012]$$z9781403973221$$w(DLC) 2011049328$$w(OCoLC) 770694069 000452982 8520_ $$bacq 000452982 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central 000452982 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=956605$$zOnline Access 000452982 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:452982$$pGLOBAL_SET 000452982 980__ $$aEBOOK 000452982 980__ $$aBIB 000452982 982__ $$aEbook 000452982 983__ $$aOnline