Author: Elizabeth Scala
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ISBN: 9780814273807
Category : Desire in literature
Languages : en
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Author: Elizabeth Scala
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814251997
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a discourse of desire. Beyond the many pilgrims' stories taking desire as their topic, Elizabeth Scala argues that desire operates in structurally significant ways found in the signifying chains that link the tales to each other. Desire in the Canterbury Tales coordinates the compulsions of desire with the act of misreading to define the driving force of Chaucer's story collection. With Chaucer's competitive pilgrimage as an important point of departure, this study examines the collection's manner of generating stories out of division, difference, and contestation. It argues that Chaucer's tales are produced as misreadings and misrecognitions of each other. Looking to the main predicate of the General Prologue's famous opening sentence ("longen") as well as the thematic concerns of a number of tale-tellers, and working with a theoretical model that exposes language as the product of such longing, Scala posits desire as the very subject of the Canterbury Tales and misrecognition as its productive effect. In chapters focusing on both the well-discussed tales of fragment 1 and the marriage group as well as the more recalcitrant religious stories, Desire in the Canterbury Tales offers a comprehensive means of accounting for Chaucer's poem.

Author: John A. Pitcher
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781403973221
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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In a broad reassessment of tales at the center of debates about Chaucer's gender politics, John Pitcher maps out the coordinates of a Chaucerian theory of identity and desire. Chaucer's Feminine Subjects locates a provocation to consider sexual difference in the deconstructive logic of Chaucer's figurative language.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334178X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.

Author: John Austin Pitcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: Vicki Lynn Vincent
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Manish Sharma
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487539568
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an "insoluble." Philosophers of the fourteenth century expended great effort to solve insolubilia, like the notorious Liar paradox, in order to decide upon their truth or falsity. For Chaucer, however, and in keeping with Christ’s admonition from the Sermon on the Mount, the lover does not judge – does not decide on – the beloved. Through a series of detailed and rigorously "non-judgmental" readings, Manish Sharma provides new insight into each of the prologues and tales and intervenes into scholarly debates about their collective import. In so doing, The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales deploys Chaucer’s understanding of charity to consider the limitations of modern critical approaches to The Canterbury Tales, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. In the course of the analysis, Sharma shows not only how love and medieval philosophy together inform Chaucerian composition, but also how Chaucer could serve as a resource for contemporary theoretical reflections on love and ethics.

Author: Thomas J. Hatton
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871293787
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316615472
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Merchant's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.