Diagnosis and Repair: Reading the Sick Body with Chaucer's Physician and Pardoner.
- Author / Editor
- Creedon-Carey, Una.
Diagnosis and Repair: Reading the Sick Body with Chaucer's Physician and Pardoner.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 105-38.
- Description
- Shows that "medical models for textual interpretation" structure Part 6 of CT. Assesses violent, authoritative models of medical cure posed in the GP description of the Physician; interrogates literary interpretation as self-repair in PhyT; and discloses queer, consensual models for reading and repair in PardPT that undercut normative cure and authoritative interpretation. Theories by Eli Clare and by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick serve as "critical poles with which to navigate the medicalized reading dynamic" of Part 6.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale