Naturalism and Its Discontents in the Miller's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Miller, Mark.
Naturalism and Its Discontents in the Miller's Tale
- Published
- ELH 67: 1-44, 2000.
- Description
- Discusses what naturalism is and how it links a set of normative intuitions about gender and desire to a broader theory of what it means for humans to be a law to themselves. Central to MilT is Alisoun, the "single most compelling instance of a desirable natural object." In MilT, Chaucer explores responses to the problems posed by normativity and the implications of such responses.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.