Beauty and Boredom in 'The Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye.
Beauty and Boredom in 'The Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Exemplaria 22 (2010): 65-83.
- Description
- Fradenburg begins with a brief psychoanalytic view of the aesthetic of enjoyment as the communication of affect. The article explores the image of Alceste/daisy in terms of psychological and philosophical intersubjectivity. The individual stories, however, are repetitive and deadening in a way that forecloses intersubjectivity and appreciation of beauty. Exchange, conceived here as the feminine, is oppressive, a "refusal of life."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.