Aphrodite/Artemis // Emilia/Alison : The Semiotics of Perception

Author / Editor
Weissman, Hope (Phyllis).

Title
Aphrodite/Artemis // Emilia/Alison : The Semiotics of Perception

Published
Exemplaria 2 (1990): 89-125.

Description
The feminist film criticism theory of the "male gaze" articulates the "triangulated" male-female relationship of KnT and MilT as they arise in response to Boccaccio's elucidation of the gaze in his "Teseida" and in relation to two classical "archetypes of the inscribed female": Aphrodite, signifying "male mastery," and Artemis, representing masculine "disempowerment."

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Miller and His Tale.