Desire in the "Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Scala, Elizabeth.
Desire in the "Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015.
- Physical Description
- x, 225 pp.
- Series
- Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture.
- Description
- Presents Lacanian analysis of desire in CT that focuses on the "circulation of the signifier" and the generative power of misrecognition/misreading. Clarifies the meaning and function of fundamental concepts (subject, signifier, Other, aggressivity, Symbolic order,etc.) and identifies in GP the functions of desire ("longen" [line 12]) and contestation. Examines paired tales that epitomize aspects of desire and its manifestations in language and narrative, and ways that it "pervades and constitutes the discourse" of CT. Considers KnT and RvT (mediated by MilT), WBT and ClT, and PhyT and SNT. Refers to MLT, FranT, and ShT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Knight and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Physician and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale
Man of Law and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale