Lordship, Bondage, and the Erotic: The Psychological Bases of Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Cramer, Patricia.
Lordship, Bondage, and the Erotic: The Psychological Bases of Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 89 (1990): 491-511
- Description
- Walter and Griselda are an "Oedipal couple whose sadomasochistic rituals of dominance and submission enact gender roles prescribed by patriarchal social structures which Freud recognized and propogated through his Oedipal models for mental health."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.