'I Will Thee Not Forsake': The Kristevan Maternal Space in Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale' and John of Garland's Stella Maris

Description: A reading of PrT in the mode of Julia Kristeva reveals it to be the narrative of the "litel clergeon's" entry into self-hood and subjectivity by a traumatic passage from the maternal "chora," represented by the singing of "Alma redemptio mater," through abjection, into the symbolic order of language and the Father.; A revised version is printed as "Castration: Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale' and John of Garland's 'Stella Maris'," in Corey Marvin, Word Outward: Medieval Perspectives on the Entry into Language (New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 23-47.

Alternative Title: "Castration: Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale' and John of Garland's 'Stella Maris'."; Word Outward: Medieval Perspectives on the Entry into Language.