Desire in the Canterbury Tales

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scala, Elizabeth, 1966- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press [2015]
Series:Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649802806719
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.