Amorous Dispossessions : Knowledge, Desire, and the Poet's Dead Body
- Author / Editor
- Ingham, Patricia Clare.
Amorous Dispossessions : Knowledge, Desire, and the Poet's Dead Body
- Published
- Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, eds. The Post-Historical Middle Ages ((New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 13-35.
- Description
- Ingham considers evidence from the exhumation of Petrarch's skull and from Chaucer studies to demonstrate the role of "amorous dispossessions" in historicist pursuits. Lacan's comments on courtly love theorize such dispossessions and complicate notions of truth and knowledge. The author discusses the "problem" that Chaucer's knowledge of Petrarch causes for claims about historical periods and explores aspects of global study of Chaucer.
- Alternative Title
- The Post-Historical Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.