Courtly Love Hate Is Undead: Sadomasochistic Privilege in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Megna, Paul.
Courtly Love Hate Is Undead: Sadomasochistic Privilege in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- In Russell Sbriglia, ed. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. 267-89.
- Description
- Uses Slavoj Žižek's analysis of privilege and courtly love to assess the major characters of TC: the "servile aggression" of the narrator; Pandarus's "patriarchal privilege"; Crisyede's "ethically heroic" decisions about loving her husband, Troilus, and Diomede; and Troilus's transition from "masochistic courtly lover" to "sadistic courtly hater." Compares these with Shakespeare's Troilus and Othello; Leonard, in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket"; and the "sadomasochistic privilege" of 2014 California spree-killer Elliot Rodger.
- Contributor
- Sbriglia, Russell, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek .
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde