Like Two Autistic Moonbeams Entering the Window of My Asylum: Chaucer's Griselda and Lars von Trier's Bess McNeill.
- Author / Editor
- Joy, Eileen A.
Like Two Autistic Moonbeams Entering the Window of My Asylum: Chaucer's Griselda and Lars von Trier's Bess McNeill.
- Published
- postmedieval 2 (2011): 316-28.
- Description
- Considers the protagonists of ClT and Lars von Trier's film "Breaking the Waves," exploring how the audience's experiences of the "weird realism" of Griselda and Bess may be seen to induce a "heightened mode of encounter with the traces of a sentience network" theorized by Carolyn Dinshaw, Michel Foucault, and Michael Moore.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
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