Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales by J. Pit

Description: Chaucer's Feminine Subjects by J. Pitcher This book demonstrates how post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Chaucers 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 Chaucers rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity. Notes Clarifies poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theories in medieval texts Author Biography John A. Pitcher teaches medieval literature and music history at the University of the Fraser Valley, Canada, where he currently serves as Head of the Department of English. Table of Contents The Martyrs Purpose: The Logic of Sacrifice in The Clerks Tale Chaucers Wolf: Exemplary Violence in The Physicians Tale The Rhetoric of Desire in The Franklin s Tale Figures of Desire in The Wife of Bath s Prologue and Tale Review Chaucers Feminine Subjects reanimates feminist criticism of Chaucer by scrutinizing the poets abiding interest, even obsession, with the feminine figures in his poetry. Reading sensitively but unapologetically with a post-Freudian psychoanalytic optics, Pitcher demonstrates the historical and political stakes of gender and gendered desire in some of the major narratives of The Canterbury Tales. His readings prompt us to appreciate Chaucers attention to femininity and difference, psychology, and knowledge, as well as the shifting frontier of modernity. Recasting psychoanalysis as discourse of particularity, he attends the historical terms by which Chaucer resists the totalizing claims of gender and exposes the binary gender system as an institutionalized fiction. For those of us wondering what has become of specifically feminist and gender studies of Chaucer in light of more recent attention to different forms of cultural alterity and otherness this is a welcome book indeed. Elizabeth Scala, author of Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval EnglandWith his focus as much on psychoanalysis as on medieval poetry, Pitcher gives language its full due as the rhetorical stuff of the talking cure. Here textual and psychic lives converge in the descriptions, sources, glosses, equivocations, and authorial nods that together constitute both Chaucers poetry and his female subjects. Valerie Allen, professor of English, John Jay College Review Quote Chaucers Feminine Subjects reanimates feminist criticism of Chaucer by scrutinizing the poets abiding interest, even obsession, with the feminine figures in his poetry. Reading sensitively but unapologetically with a post-Freudian psychoanalytic optics, Pitcher demonstrates the historical and political stakes of gender and gendered desire in some of the major narratives of The Canterbury Tales. His readings prompt us to appreciate Chaucers attention to femininity and difference, psychology, and knowledge, as well as the shifting frontier of modernity. Recasting psychoanalysis as discourse of particularity, he attends the historical terms by which Chaucer resists the totalizing claims of gender and exposes the binary gender system as an institutionalized fiction. For those of us wondering what has become of specifically feminist and gender studies of Chaucer in light of more recent attention to different forms of cultural alterity and otherness this is a welcome book indeed. Elizabeth Scala, author of Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England With his focus as much on psychoanalysis as on medieval poetry, Pitcher gives language its full due as the rhetorical stuff of the talking cure. Here textual and psychic lives converge in the descriptions, sources, glosses, equivocations, and authorial nods that together constitute both Chaucers poetry and his female subjects. Valerie Allen, professor of English, John Jay College Description for Bookstore Clarifies poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theories Details ISBN1403973229 Short Title CHAUCERS FEMININE SUBJECTS Language English ISBN-10 1403973229 ISBN-13 9781403973221 Media Book Format Hardcover Pages 200 DEWEY 821.1 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Place of Publication Gordonsville Country of Publication United States Illustrations XIV, 200 p. Subtitle Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales DOI 10.1604/9781403973221 UK Release Date 2012-06-08 AU Release Date 2012-06-08 NZ Release Date 2012-06-08 US Release Date 2012-06-08 Author J. Pitcher Publisher Palgrave USA Series The New Middle Ages Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-06-08 Alternative 9781349534470 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:96927372;

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