Desire in Language: Andreas Capellanus and the Controversy of Courtly Love
- Author / Editor
- Moi, Toril.
Desire in Language: Andreas Capellanus and the Controversy of Courtly Love
- Published
- David Aers, ed. Medieval Literature (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), pp. 11-33.
- Description
- Reviews controversy (important in TC studies) on courtly love in Robertson, Donaldson, and Benton; naive "reflectionism" is attacked by Marxist theorists. In "De amore," desire is a hermeneutical challenge: "God for Andreas, like death for Lacan, is the only instance which can put a final end to the discourse of desire."
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology, and History.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Troilus and Criseyde.