Mutual Masochism and the Hermaphroditic Courtly Lady in Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Pugh, Tison.
Mutual Masochism and the Hermaphroditic Courtly Lady in Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale'
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 33 (2011): 149-81.
- Description
- Assesses Jacques Lacan's and Slovoj Žižek's discussions of courtly love, focusing on the hermaphroditic potential of the Courtly Lady, and discusses FranT for the ways that hermaphroditic and masochistic tendencies inhabit the main characters' "performances of amatory submission" (177). Also, comments on the Franklin's submission to the Host and his queering of that position by foreclosing "masculine pleasure in climax" at the end of the tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale