Naked Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Edmondson, George.
Naked Chaucer
- Published
- Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, eds. The Post-Historical Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 139-60
- Description
- The appearance of naked "Geoff" Chaucer in Brian Helgeland's film, "A Knight's Tale," "challenges the logic of the present . . . assumed by presentism," even while reminding us that historical periods exist, "each one haunted by the moment of its diachronic foundation." In a Lacanian sense and by means of an "allegorized sexuality," "Geoff" is a reminder of the uncanny presence of the past in the present. Edmondson compares moments in the film to KnT and to the prologue to Th.
- Alternative Title
- The Post-Historical Middle Ages
- Chaucer Subjects
- Recordings and Films.
- Knight and His Tale