Equivocations: The Agency of Desire in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Pitcher, John Austin.

Title
Equivocations: The Agency of Desire in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 3582A, 2001.

Description
Examines the "interrelation of equivocation and desire" in PhyT, ClT, FranT, and WBPT, not in what the narrators and characters say, but through a "movement or oscillation between opposed interests." In CT, sexual politics can be found in the ambivalences, anomalies, and complexities of language.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Physician and His Tale.
Clerk and His Tale.
Franklin and His Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.