Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 279 g
Reihe: The New Middle Ages
Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales
Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 279 g
Reihe: The New Middle Ages
ISBN: 978-1-349-53447-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
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.
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Research
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Feministische Philosophie, Gender Studies
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
Weitere Infos & Material
The Martyr's Purpose: The Logic of Sacrifice in The Clerk's Tale Chaucer's Wolf: Exemplary Violence in The Physician's Tale The Rhetoric of Desire in The Franklin 's Tale Figures of Desire in The Wife of Bath 's Prologue and Tale
