Grotesquely Articulate Bodies: Medicine, Hermeneutics and Writing in the "Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Keller, Angelina.
Grotesquely Articulate Bodies: Medicine, Hermeneutics and Writing in the "Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp, eds. Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters: Studies on the Medieval Body in Honour of Margaret Bridges (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 79-124.
- Description
- Identifies in medieval medicine a concern with organs and features of the human body that are "grotesquely" able to speak, and associates the concept with Cecilia's neck in SNT and the clergeon's throat in PrT. Through their depictions of human bodies speaking through wounds, these tales engage ideas of verbal propriety and authority, and subversively point toward the "materiality of language" and the "sheer impossibility of proper signification."
- Alternative Title
- Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale
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