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Philosophical Chaucer : love, sex, and agency in the Canterbury tales /
"Mark Miller's innovative study argues that Chaucer's Canterbury Tales represent an extended meditation on agency, autonomy, and practical reason. This philosophical aspect of Chaucer's interests can help us understand what is both sophisticated and disturbing about his explorati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;
55. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Mark Miller's innovative study argues that Chaucer's Canterbury Tales represent an extended meditation on agency, autonomy, and practical reason. This philosophical aspect of Chaucer's interests can help us understand what is both sophisticated and disturbing about his explorations of love, sex, and gender. Partly through fresh readings of the Consolation of Philosophy and the Romance of the Rose, Miller charts Chaucer's position in relation to the association in the Christian West between problems of autonomy and problems of sexuality, and reconstructs how medieval philosophers and literary writers approached psychological phenomena often thought of as distinctively modern. The literary experiments of the Canterbury Tales represent a distinctive philosophical achievement that remains vital to our own attempts to understand agency, desire, and their histories."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 289 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-280) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511080999 9780511080999 0511121857 9780511121852 9780511483363 0511483368 9780511080234 0511080239 1280163240 9781280163241 1107140374 9781107140370 0511196571 9780511196577 0511298129 9780511298127 |