The Circulation of Desire in 'The Shipman's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Thormann, Janet.
The Circulation of Desire in 'The Shipman's Tale
- Published
- Literature and Psychology 39: 1-15, 1993.
- Description
- A Lacanian analysis of ShT questions "the position of the speaking subject within the network of symbolic exchange. The narrative imbrecates three symbolic systems: speech, money, and sexual division . . . synonymously, as metaphors of each other, and distinctly, as metonymic chains."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.