Medieval Identity Machines

Author / Editor
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed.

Title
Medieval Identity Machines

Published
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Physical Description
xxix, 323 pp.

Series
Medieval Cultures, no. 35.

Description
Bodies in medieval literature are depicted as rhizomatic, unfinished identity machines invented by texts, such as TC, CT, and others. Commentary draws on theories of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and others. Particular references to SqT, WBP, PardT, MLT, and especially GP, with a close comparison to the opening of "The Sultan of Babylon."

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales-General.
Troilus and Criseyde.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Squire and His Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Pardoner and His Tale.
Man of Law and His Tale.