Desire in the Canterbury Tales /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scala, Elizabeth, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2015]
Series:Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Canterbury tales.
Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Desire in literature.
Désir dans la littérature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Desire in literature
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Mobility and contestation
  • "We witen nat what thing we preyen heere": desire, knowledge, and the ruse of satisfaction in The knight's tale
  • Misreading like the reeve
  • Symptoms of desire in Chaucer's wives and clerks
  • Disfigurements of desire in Chaucer's religious tales
  • Conclusion: Reading and misreading Chaucer.

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