Equivocations: The Agency of Desire in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Pitcher, John Austin.
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.