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001 2011049328
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005 20120130141012.0
008 111201s2012 nyu b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2011049328
020 $a9781403973221
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aPR1928.W64$bP58 2012
082 00 $a821/.1$223
084 $aLIT011000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aPitcher, John A.,$d1965-
245 10 $aChaucer's feminine subjects :$bfigures of desire in the " Canterbury tales" /$cJohn A. Pitcher.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2012.
263 $a1206
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aNew Middle Ages
520 $a"This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer's rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Chaucer's Feminine Subjects demonstrates how poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer's rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity. More broadly, this study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction Chaucer's feminine subjects: feminism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis -- Figures of desire in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and tale -- The rhetoric of desire in The Franklin's tale -- The martyr's purpose: The rhetoric of disavowal in The Clerk's tale -- Chaucer's Wolf: exemplary violence in The Physician's tale -- Afterword.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.$2bisacsh
600 10 $aChaucer, Geoffrey,$dd. 1400$xCharacters$xWomen.
600 10 $aChaucer, Geoffrey,$dd. 1400.$tCanterbury tales.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
650 0 $aDesire in literature.
650 0 $aGender identity in literature.
650 0 $aSex role in literature.
600 10 $aChaucer, Geoffrey,$dd. 1400$xLanguage.
650 0 $aFeminism and literature$zEngland.
650 0 $aPsychoanalysis and literature$zEngland.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500.