Chaucer's feminine subjects : figures of desire in The Canterbury tales /
"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 Canterbu...
| Основен автор: | Pitcher, John A., 1965- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Издание: | First edition. |
| Серия: |
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Онлайн достъп: |
Book jacket |
| Резюме: |
"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. "-- "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"-- |
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| Физически характеристики: |
xiv, 200 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781403973221 1403973229 |