Chaucer's Body : The Anxiety of Circulation in the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Shoaf, [Richard] Allen.

Title
Chaucer's Body : The Anxiety of Circulation in the Canterbury Tales

Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2001.

Physical Description
xvi, 162 pp.

Description
Chaucer's use of metonymy in CT expresses his "anxiety of circulation," which is traced through his references to the fragmented body and bodily functions, infection, magic, rhetoric, and translation. Shoaf examines relationships among tales, tellers, and Harry Bailly in the various fragments of CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.