Derrida's Cat and Nicholas's Study

Author / Editor
Stanbury, Sarah.

Title
Derrida's Cat and Nicholas's Study

Published
New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 155-67.

Description
Considers the cat in MilT as a device of demarcation between the domesticity of John's house and the privacy of Nicholas's "elite" study, observing links between this use of an animal as a device with Derrida's contemplations on his cat. Also considers connections between Nicholas's study and that of Petrarch, who treasured his cat enough to mummify it. Includes 5 b&w figs.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale