Queer Consolation: BDSM in Chaucer's "The Clerk’s Tale," Sadistic Epistemology, and the Ends of Suffering.
- Author / Editor
- Raskolnikov, Masha.
Queer Consolation: BDSM in Chaucer's "The Clerk’s Tale," Sadistic Epistemology, and the Ends of Suffering.
- Published
- Christopher Vaccaro, ed. Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 235-66.
- Description
- Investigates queer consolation in ClT, exploring interconnections among consent, Griselda's masochistic suffering, Walter's sadistic testing and desire to know, their “power exchange" (a concept drawn from BDSM), the gameful earnestness of "happiness restored" at the tale's conclusion, and the tale's latent critique of "hyper-heteronormativity." Includes consideration of complicating nuances of words such as "entente," "sadnesse," "grucce," "likerous," and lust."
- Alternative Title
- Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale