Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in "The Canterbury Tales"
- Author / Editor
- Pitcher, John A.
Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in "The Canterbury Tales"
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 200 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Description
- Analyzes how Chaucer's rhetorical constructions decenter self-disclosure and resist simplistic notions of gender in WBPT, ClT, FranT, and PhyT. Figurative or allusive speech cannot adequately represent subjectivity and desire. Chaucer's treatments of the feminine subject are not univocal; however, his tales can both reinforce and undermine cultural and gender norms.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Clerk and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Physician and His Tale