Chaucer's Feminine Subjects

J. Pitcher

ISBN 10: 1349534471 / ISBN 13: 9781349534470

Edité par Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Jun 2012, 2012

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Neuware -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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 216 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Chaucer's Feminine Subjects
• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Jun 2012
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1349534471
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781349534470
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 140 H x 12 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 140 millimètres de hauteur par 12 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 279 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

John A. Pitcher teaches medieval literature and music history at the University of the Fraser Valley, Canada, where he currently serves as Head of the Department of English.