Textual Pleasure in the Miller's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Daniels, Richard.
Textual Pleasure in the Miller's Tale
- Published
- James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, and Sylvia Tomasch, eds. The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 111-23.
- Description
- In MilT, Chaucer transformed a bawdy joke into pleasing narrative art, producing in the sexual scenes moments when a reader might feel jouissance. Includes some notes toward a materialist reading of the Tale as a representation of the poetic and narrative structures that make up CT as a whole.
- Alternative Title
- The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.