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Philosophical Chaucer : = love, sex, and agency in the Canterbury tales /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Philosophical Chaucer :/ Mark Miller.
Reminder of title:	love, sex, and agency in the Canterbury tales /
Author:	Miller, Mark,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 289 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483363
ISBN:	9780511483363 (ebook)

Philosophical Chaucer : = love, sex, and agency in the Canterbury tales /
Miller, Mark,1964-

Philosophical Chaucer :love, sex, and agency in the Canterbury tales /Mark Miller. - 1 online resource (x, 289 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;55. - Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;42..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction: Chaucer and the problem of normativity -- Naturalism and its discontents in the Miller's Tale -- Normative longing in the Knight's Tale -- Agency and dialectic in the Consolation of Philosophy -- Sadomasochism and utopia in the Roman de la Rose -- Suffering love in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale -- Love's promise: the Clerk's Tale and the scandal of the unconditional.

Mark Miller's innovative study argues that Chaucer's Canterbury Tales represent an extended mediation 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.

ISBN: 9780511483363 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

964755
Chaucer, Geoffrey,
-1400.Subjects--Topical Terms:

656737
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR1875.P5 / M55 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 821/.1

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