Sacrificial Desire in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Fradenburg, Louise O.

Title
Sacrificial Desire in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Published
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27 (1997): 47-75.

Description
The logic of sacrifice (in particular, the sacrifice of the subject, Arcite) that permeates KnT produces a "jouissance," which the discourse of charity attempts to disguise.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.