| Description |
xiv, 200 pages ; 22 cm. |
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Women language |
| Series |
New Middle Ages
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New Middle Ages.
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| Summary |
"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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"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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Characters -- Women.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Desire in literature.
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Desire in literature. |
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Gender identity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Language.
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Feminism and literature -- England.
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Feminism and literature. |
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England. |
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- England.
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Psychoanalysis and literature. |
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Women and literature. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| ISBN |
9781403973221 |
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1403973229 |
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