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Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales

By Mark Miller

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0521842360, 9780521842365, 9780511080999
LCC
PR1875.P5 M55 2004
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1939393 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Pages
302\303
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

While most Chaucer critics interested in gender and sexuality have used psychoanalytic theory to analyze Chaucer's poetry, Mark Miller re-examines the links between sexuality and the philosophical analysis of agency in medieval texts such as the Canterbury Tales, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, and the Romance of the Rose. Chaucer's philosophical sophistication provides the basis for a new interpretation of the emerging notions of sexual desire and romantic love in the late Middle Ages.

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