Ful Pale Face : Agamben's Biopolitical Theory and the Sovereign Subject in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- McClellan, William.
Ful Pale Face : Agamben's Biopolitical Theory and the Sovereign Subject in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Published
- Exemplaria 17 (2005): 103-34.
- Description
- McClellan relates Giorgio Agamben's theory of the ambiguity of political sovereignty and his ideas on "gesture" and "shame" to Walter's sovereignty and Griselda's submission in ClT. Argues that these are key to understanding the Tale: "The paradoxes of sovereignty, the medium of gesture, and the disarray of shame [are] the cruxes of a political allegory that has long disturbed and baffled readers."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.